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Name NOVEL, Gordon We (U) Grade MO Office NA

DOB: 07 February 1938

_ Request for Office of Security Assistance (U)
Incident — = :

308) 7é/-235/4.

Summary of Information:

Received. a call from Detective Arthur Trollinger, Ft. Lauderdale Organized
Crime Division, who requested Office of Security assistance in verifying the
employment of SUBJECT with the Central Intelligence Agency. Caller provided

’ the following. information. (U)

SUBJECT, a convicted arsonist with ties to organized crime, is in the Ft.
Lauderdale area. He is claiming to be affiliated with the Agency and under this
guise has approached several companies specializing in electronic surveillance..
It is for this reason that caller wishes to verify SUBJECT's emp Toyenit.. (vu)

Caller provided the following description of SUBJECT:

DOB: 07 February 1938.

HEIGHT: 5'8"

WEIGHT: 177 LBS. Fc nag sypeteetcamicr Sacks sae eee sie yeeeeae
HAIR:.. BROWN os eo ,

EYES: BLUE

Advised. caller a report of his call would be. made and forwarded to the ‘ap-
propriate office for any action deemed necessary. (U)

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As’ stated. Copies forwarded to C/SSD for appropriate action. (U)
~ Contacted and briefed Curt Rivers, SSD, who requested a copy of this ‘report. (Cc)
A check of SRD indices reflects (2) two hits in name of SUBJECT and 0SD0 -
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. Coordination Staff, ATTN: ‘Liaison Control, Room 2E0308, Washington, . D.C.

suBs: NOVEL Gordon/Civilian ;
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HE INDICATED TO THE PERSON TAMING THE CALL. THAT THE SUBJECT TO HE
DISCUSSED MAS” “WASHINGTON. | THE REPORTING AGENT. RETURNED THE ICALL
WADE N- THE ENSUING CONVERSATION NOVEL INDECATEO (THAT. HE AS CIN-
MOLYVED IN A @COMMERCTAL VENTURES ONO FELT. THAT THE RESULTS MIGHT
BE OF INTEREST. TO *-ONI™. NE| INGICATEDs IN ESSENCE? THAT HIS ARO--
VECT INVOLVED OUTFITTING A “FAST PATROL: CRAFT WITH VARIOUS BEANS
DF TESTING DEFENSE SYSTEMS (NFI2. | HE INDICATED THE TAKE FROM THIS
PROJECT HOULO PROVIDE INTELLIGENCE OATA Off A VARIETY. OF WORLD-WIDE
DEFENSE SYSTEMS. WE TNOEGATEO THE BRITISH WERE INVOLVE In A

2. DURING THE CONVERSA TID ON HE HE NT TONED s OR SEVER ti GC GA SLONS THAT J

| HE FELT "on Y" wouLo BE, THE AGENCY WITHIN THE NAVY IT 0 RE CE LVE: HIS

QNFOR ATION. WHEN THE MISSTON GF NZS was EXPLAINED 70 HIM HE EX-*" ;
PRESS EO SUR PRISE: THAT ‘P ON-I® na LO WG ER EXIST ED ‘AND THAT NTS” HAG NO” 7,
Pos 1 Ive: INTELLIGENCE 16 OL LE CT 0 W AI SS TION. -o. eee ee
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1.0 "MY CORP ANY... AWHE RECT GUEST ION REGAROING THE DDEN TITY
OF HIS COMPA HE SAID YO “THE COMPANY: -CIA®. 2 HE EXPRESSED |

DISPLESSURE MITH CIA AND: ST area THAT SINQULD [HE civ VER DNV OL WE HIM SE LF /
NN & CONTRACTUAL: ARRANGEMENT WITH THE NAVY! HE WOULD NOT ALLOW WNY OF

: HIS IT NF ORRA TIT ON TO BE PAS SEO To CIA. \. ao . |

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WIS WOULD HAVE SO TENTEREST If HIS PROJECTS: THAT POSSIBLY SOMEONE
ELSE WITHIN -THE NAVAL INTELLIGENCE CONMURNIT ¥. ALGHT SE II NIEVES TE O
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SUB VECT OBIT AT NED: RE PORTING AGENT? S| NAME AND. PHONE RUMNBER AFTER HE
MAE: BN. TAT TEAL TELEPHONIC INQUIRY OF THE ASAC® -NIS RA. WASHING TON.
DUR ING THES .CONTACT. NOVEL TNDICATED HE LIVED If NEW OAL fi WS QUT.
HE oro NOT! REVEAL THE NATURE OF HIS INTERES Te. ..

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WITH: RESPED TT TO HES CONVICTION FOR AGGRAVATED ARSON « PRESENT LEGAL
ACTION REPORTEDLY INVOLVES NOVELS APPEAL ‘OF THE: GO AW LC THON AS WELL

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THT NOVEL GAS CONVICTED IN LATE 1978 10 THREE YEARS IN PRISON AS
AU RESULT OF | HIS JUNVOL VERE NT DN. ab "LAN TO FIRE ONB 4 NE wt ORLIE ANS.

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14 August 1981

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD.
SUBJECT: Telephone Conversation with Gordon Novel.

Gordon Novel called the New Orleans office on 13: August 1981.
Ronald Farris was away on Annual Leave and had arranged to have his calls
forwarded automatically to the Houston Field Office's listed telephone
number. When the call was answered with: the Houston number, Novel indi-_
cated that he was calling the New Orleans office. He was told that Farris
was out of the office for a week and his calls were being relayed to
Houston. Novel asked how -he would go about obtaining his personal Agency
file under the Freedom of Information Act. He was told ‘that he should
_address a letter to Freedom of Information Coordinator with his request.
“ He then indicated that he had done this already, and the information sent
to him was so severely edited and sanitized that it was difficult to make
sense of it. He did, however, discover.that it contained information that
was erroneous and he asked how to go-about refuting: the misinformation —
and/or correcting the file. It was-suggested that he write a letter . .-
_ detailing the discrepancies and request that a change be made. He did
“not seem interested in doing that and promptly changed his line of
questioning. He asked how he would go about contacting the Director of
the Agency directly. .He was told that he should use the local represent-
ative, Mri Farris, .to relay any information he might wish to get to the
Director. : Novel indicated that he had only talked to Farris once, but
was anxious to bypass the usual charinels to avoid having his information .
mishandled or misconstrued. He was told that Farris was a highly. qualified.
representative of the. Agency and the proper. individual to contact regarding
information he wished to get to the Director's attention. He gave a.small
sinister chuckle and replied, "We'll see about that," then hung up. —

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DCD/Houston Field Office

CC: Chief, Central Staff
New Orleans Resident Office

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Raymond’ ca “Reardon
Security Analysis reek

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29 April 1977

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

FROM - . : Raymond M. Reardon
SUBJECT .,.Pending Litigation - Gordon Novel
1. Gordon. Novel is a somewhat notorious figure

who first came to the attention of this Agency during the

~« Garrision Investigation into the assassination of
‘President Kennedy. -From time to time he has claimed.to
be a CIA employee. or.to be. acting on behalf of the CIA.
He has never been employed by the Agency and has had no
contacts with the Agency except for occasional visits to

- Domestic Collection Division offices. He has been in
several scrapes with the law, most recently in October
1976 when he was on trial for conspiracy. to: firebomb
several buildings in New Orleans. Mr. Novel has now

ove E£lled a civil..suit-claiming alleged violations of his

rights and interference with his personal affairs. He
is not suing..the. Agency but he has named Mr. Howard
Osborn as a defendant. Mr. Osborn has been in touch with
the Office of. General Counsel seeking representation by

the suit probably resulted from his official duties with
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been te Office of General Counsel contacted the undersigned to
inquire whether we had a-file on Novel and if the file
showed any reason why Mr. Novel should have named
Mr. Osborn as a’defendant in the suit: Mr. Jameson was
- given a rundown: on the nature of the information in
“Novel's file and’ was also provided with Mr. Osborn's
retirement date, 26—February1974. Mr. Jameson mentioned
that most of the(alieged activities complained about by

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Novel occurred in 1975 and there is no apparent reason
nor Novel having singled out Mr. Osborn as a defendant.
‘Jameson also requested traces on two individuals
who are apacese” to have. sa involved in this matter--

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these” individuals.

3. Mr “Jameson indicated that we “would probably . ~
be receiving. a formal request for pertinent information SL
as this case develops, but he merely needed.a preliminary
reading in order to determine if Mr.. -Osborn should be
defended by the Department of. Justice in this litigation.

. Aside from indexing the names of Blanscett and Pfiffer to. .
- Novel's file, no further action is contemplated by the
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:. Deputy. Chief — . -
Security Analysis Group

TO: (Officer designation, room number, and -
building) .

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¥that we advise NIS that
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MEMORANDUM FoR: The Director - BS
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FROM: 2 William R R. “Kotapish’. a Poe
Poe ee Acting. Director of. Security ne

“sussect: Gordon Novel oes

Reference is made to your memorandum - of ‘transmittal |
“dated 18 January 1980 which forwarded a Naval. Investigative _
Service Operations Report dated-9. January 1980... The report -
~ dealt with.a contact of ‘your New Orleans Office with ‘one °
.-Gordon Novel. According to the report, during: his contact |
Mr. Novel indicated that he. had a relationship. with the:

. Central Intelligence Agency. -This is to advise you’ ‘that a:

| check of the appropriate records of the. Central pmtetligence
~ Agency has determined that Mr. Novel | ‘is not and has: never:

been an employee of this Agency. a es Pee

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RELEASE IN FULL 1998 . 210CT 1976
MEMORANDUM FOR: General Counsel
ATTENTION : Mt, John K. Greaney
FRO : Edwal Jones

Deputy Director of Security
Personnel Security and Investigations:

SUBJECT | : Gorden Dwane Novel; Lawrence 3. Rohde;
Alien D. Bell, Jr.

1. Reference is : made te your 20 October” 1976 priority
‘request (OGC 76-8787) which asks that the Office of Security
search its indices to determine if any of the above-naned
individuals have ever bee employed by the Agency. Reference
is further made te our telephonic response to you on 20 October

1976: confirming that none of these individuals have ever been
employed by the Agency. ;

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- 2. This menerandun - WELL serve to confirn the referenced’
telephonic response, Office of Security indices contain no

- record in the-wame of Lawrence B, Rohde, which was alse searched
in the variation of. Lawrence 8. Rhode, The Office of Security a
dees naintain files on Gordon wane Novel and Allen D.°Selr;- i, ren oe
and a brief summary of the information contained within these: ;
files ‘Sppears below: an

a Gordon Dvane Novel, SP#S26 115

Hz. Novel hes a long history of leaving the
impression that he is either employed by or asso-
ciated with the CIA, Mr. Novel has not, however,
ever been an employee of the Agency in any capacity.
The Office of Security file on Mr. Nevel was
‘egtablished in 1967 by virtue of his involvement.
- with the Garrison - investigation of the assassination
of President Kennedy;. During the ensuing period
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Agency with various proposals, none of which have:
been followed-up by the Agency. Most recently,
‘My. Novel was:in contact with the Domestic Collec: |
tion Division (DCD) in New Orleans, Lowisiana,
in October 1975 and. February 1976 to volunteer
various proposals. Mr. Novel's proposals were
rejected by DCB, and Mr. Novel was requested to-
' refrain from future contact with that office,

be Allen D. Beli, Its» SP6648 216

Mr. Bell. is President of Dektor Counter-
intelligence and Security, Incorporated,
Springfield, Virginia, and has appeared widely
in the news media as a “wiretapping expert,"
mest recently in connection with the Watergate |
hearings. Mr. Bell has never been employed by
the Agency. The Office of Security file on
Mr. Bell was established. in 1970 besed on a
request from the Technical Security Division,
Directorate sf Operations (TSD5) for a Contact |
Security Approval, Cited approval was granted
in November 1971, aithough Hr, Bell's file dogs
not reflect. the specific purpase for the request
nor if Nr, Bell was actually contacted, Mr. Bell
was. also of interest to DCB in October 19733.
however, the specific purpose of this interest
is not contained within Mr,’ Bell's Files

3. As indicated, a review of our records failed ‘te ‘disclose
any indication that Mrs. Novel, Mr, Rohde, ox Hrs. Bell have ever
been ‘eupleyed by the. Agency in any capacity.

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DATE OF DOC | DATE REC'D DATE OUT

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4 “Parish.” The fhitlaavit “was |1964 discovered cat multe :
if Tata the bunk: |: signed hy Capt. Bert Boyne, [bod ar
ler -(they)” ray various -for : Meanwhile, the DA’s pitice

' of explosives:-and munitions: sald a new Peure in in Ae

"| Thereatter they returned alg . estigation ee a

: fhe city of New: we Ww

; zi the stolen ‘mupitiang,” ~

Sherr... :

aid Gordon Noyel r
ended to questioning by Jim
serigon on, lstiet attorney, for.

rleans, and |:
: ney Gurvich, investightive |
‘pid trison; .that:he
4) and. the ‘partlés. named here.
: foe in te fact. coin} th :

: ser ck: gered Tat Na Niel
‘ rglo Arracl a.Smith, Da
: W. Ferre’ and other ‘Winamed
: Ris Bone “did conspire, agree se
: | and’combine to burglarize ab{.--
+ ‘rounitlons. bynker. located: in _
| Houma, La.”
He: sald ‘tho conspiracy ‘was |:
| entered into in New ‘Orleans |:
atthe home of Arcacha. :
*, :pAlleock suid thatthe. men _
Went to Houma on or about |;
Aug. 22, 196),
“The trip. wag made ‘from |:

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| Ordered to Keep. Quiet}

| NEW ORLEANS (AP candidate: for attorney general
{Criminal District Court Judge|in ‘the last Minnesota election,
Edward Haggerty Jc. ;todey lis on-érial in U.S. District Court
-..fordered |. the prosecution andjhere charged wilh. fraud and] |... .
-:|defense in the Clay L. Shaw’s|conspiracy .in the collapse of|
Kennedy assass{natfo (the American Allied Insurance|
acy trial to refrain from pre-trial| (Co. of St. Paul, Minn. .
publicity. He told them to quit]. Kroman had’ ‘called a news
. {discussing evidence, | - - feonference for 7 p.m, today|
:k. The. judge sald at a newsjwhen he sald he would lell of] _-
~ [conference he would invoke the] his. -peivate Investigation Into]
canons of professional ethics ‘‘to|the assassination of Kennedy.
prevent the flow of prejudicial! :.-was not known what Kro-
pre-trial publicity” from either]/man intended to say. A state
| Shaw's attorneys or from Dist.|highway patrolman found Kror
‘| Atty. Jim Garrison's staff. . {man in his locked car at. 4).
~." |. He- said the arraignment of}a.m. 24 miles east ‘of Bismarck,| -
oe Shaw, indicted by the-grand jury Kroman was paralyzed’ and in-].
March. 17 on charges of conspir-|coherent, ‘the policeman said.)
ing | ‘to .assassinate President }A loaded shotgun was across| .
John F,. Kennedy, probably will {the -attorney’s knees, \ . pe
be held next week..’ Sat Kroman was taken to a Big-
Haggerty said the saie|marck hospital, where a doc-
‘jsecurity measures in effect at|tor said: Kroman apparently
Shaw's : preliminary | hearing|had suffered an + pepe 5
earlier this month would be used |7uUre. © :
at the. arraignment, Reporters },_-
needed ‘special credentials to
cover thevhearing and cameras
* Jwere barred... :
: (Meanwhile, | “Gor
~Jissued .a_telepholia challenge to
Garrison today to prove by lie
’’ Idelector that the probe Is not 4
- | fraud, ‘United. Press s Internat}on:
al reported.”
; (Novel who: left New ‘Orleans
: |shortly before : the. _grand- jury
was to. subpoena him last week,
-lwould not say ‘where ‘he was:
calling from.. Novel ‘reportedly
took a lie detector test in Ms:
Lean, Va., over the weeken
Ur back Up his charges that the
investigation {s a. fraud.). .
” Haggerty has sald he does net
believe the Warren Commission
repott on the assassination can
. [be admitted as evidence mainly
‘|because “° the ©. commliyston's |:
_ witnesses ‘could -not bo cross-
: examined

“FIGURE IN CASE
“<5 | FOUND. STRICKEN |

| BISMARCK, NDS CUPD=[6 1 Qy
NC RS aE RRA rake a |
co *~"\elosures about: the’ assassina- oe
tion of President John F.'Ken-{

night, was found today partial-;
ly paralyzed by an: apparent —
epileptic seizure,. +

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yer for the Minnosotq Insurance},
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‘Garrison Seeking Two

As Arms Theft Plotters _

; ‘ ‘NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Garrison has alleged that Fer-
‘list, Atty. Jim Garrison has|"e, Lee Harve Oswald and: +>
jasked Canadian and Texas au-|Clay [.” Shaw aed Ta mide
thorities to. arrest two men September 1963 lo kill President -
charged in an’ incident which Kennedy. 4 Ogwald “and bikr tae oe
‘|Garrison's office si “may or . 1 4, req...
ATT SOM SO related y “TlNew Orlbang executive, hag 0.)
been indicted on a charge of! ° : -

_ i on, Co may not be related” to his

op are : be he Kenn *

Lo 3 |peabe of the Kennedy assassins" Jeonspiring to kill the president,
Se a “The warrants for Novel and: -

‘| Garrison telegraphed arrest
warrants yesterday. lo Montreal

_| for Gordor- d'to Dallas,

| Tex., tor Sergio Arcacha Smith
based on charger of conspiring

_ fo burglarize a munitions ‘bun-
yer “1981. a i ‘al witness .
: ~ }} Garrison obtained ‘a warrant material * head ‘of the anti-Cas-
"Mor Novel’s arrest last week as @ tro Cuban —_‘ Revolutionary
""" Tmaterial witness in the probe of| Council in New Orleans In 1961,-
'. President John F.. Kennedy's | said in Dallas he does not know
. Jassassination. whether be: will fight extradilida
“The new charge accused Nov- rl But he added, -

Argacha cre signed by Criml- =".
nal Dist. Court Judge Thomag - "

Brahney, who set bond at $5,000 7”
for each. Novel already had a *
$50,000 bond awalting him oy .
the warrant for his arrest as A:

a to New Orleans.

“let and Areacha of conspiring|“It is a shame that in this cous ©
{vty David W. Ferrie to commit |try ‘they da this fg honest; peor
simple burglary ofa munitions ple!) no fe phe
:|dump in Houma. about. 40 miles|_ ‘The Shaw case is’ scheduled

“;fsouthweal of New Orleans, .. - for arraignment Wedneuday,..

Ten

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RY United Pree ‘oternationat 3°

al -Gordon_Navel, the. “missing

iwilness™ in New Orleans Dist. ;
Atty. Jim Garrison's investiga-
lion of. an. alleged Kennedy
assassination conspiracy,|i
: a ae . VPopped. up! in a Washington]
| So te , isuburb yesidrday and jook a He |

: oS o ; ; | detector. test .on his chitrge. that
ithe Garrison investigation, was &

Gl. |tion is a eau ” Fug said he |

a i asked ‘Novel. “Yes,"" he said

ab | Novel, replied. - eo |

oF : ‘Novel, a: former nightclub!

a “operator, left _New. Orleans |
-!shortly before a grand jury oe
| investigating . the assassination |. =~ - ; Ce ee

‘ytried to subpoena him,

1 in ‘New Qrleans, Judge Mal: , ero
.| thew. Braniff has isgued orders eS

1 {for Novel to post a $50,000 band | ; re
as no -materlal’ witness or be ot oe 8
‘arrested as-a fugilive, . : ; ; :
| Novel's connection with the!
: Garrison investigation has never

i been Precisely Fpelled out. oo, - _ f :
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nt here :
slg 1

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{for, fatigue: and -an
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“Gurion had sald earth BI

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age ¢ a NS ' : Bey pee 7
ARS ce Garrisons ote aha What any friend Moy Gast} caer ery iba ®
a4 orden aval, for a ds, nonducting’ is-‘nof 4 nor: iaeeeerutm te fet see

aE ie A ‘note
-_ "Novel Sree ‘subpoenaed. to beliid’ tr reporters, “It ‘anid
| appear fore “the Orleans “Gentlemen; : o pressure],
arish grand. Jury. yesterday in trom . New “Orleatig’ -i" had't
connection . - with: Garrison's leave, I will prove my sta ement t
faa fhe appear -and| in Chicago.in due course;!) if):
ere, - -.| Novel appeared “before * the
" [+3Novel latepr’ .turned © up in| grand jury March te, "Earlier he I
ue, Qolumbus, ‘Oblo, He Jett. thereltold newsmen he thaught Garrk|! !
te Chek fav ng we tO...

de Vv! tie disteio .
os atiomney's ‘office: alleged’ that}. «7!
Novel :fled .New.. ‘Orleans. “while!
+ . gubpoena.. ‘Tt gaid he Grime
- ] evel “hfs.- “business ties and (istrict tion
ptated: purty at he. ‘had na}.

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Injury, He entered the hospital ae
Saturday. . a irs iar
; Garrivon -had ald van ho
Would bypass the ‘gra . Jur
~ ‘and file 4 bill oFinformation be.
: ‘}fore bringlng Shaw to trial,
1} Garrison « already had | won
‘Ha-ruling ‘from a

Oh . Carri
oye a we aa . vray " 10g ‘not: i a
rmer Owner ol! my yl investigation but ig-a polltl-| -
ge ¥ ‘rench Quarter . bar, aya cal, police state “inquisition * ~
: material ‘witness inthe investi-| United -: Pregs ‘- International vo
. : . . ie a A |}: Se

led
eliminary hearing tow,
ding Shaw for trial, “
} i Rtsso ‘Appears ;
[Shaw avag chargod yesterda
0. Ptr grand jury “trae “bill, witk
oo Swiltully. ang gegtully con-|
- oy Ueplring with David. Ww. rarrie,|
boo Lee - Harvey Oswald ‘and un-|

_ named others tg murdeg. John’ ;
LF, Kennedy," ">. Pea an

wy (Shaw's attorney sald last night
hig glen mould Plead not gui ty|

t

dater:” turned up” inj grand jury March 16, Earlier he{] :
8; Ohio, He’ lett: there/told newsmen he thought Garrl-
y,-/ 8aying he: wa ing:to| son <wanled to. question “him}.
-| about -- activities - “during .1963]. :
tor. Novel! which ‘arg related to Mr. Sergio|:. a
tthe cl-/Arcacha Smith, =" #F8! a
-{ ment yesterday of Clay. L. Shaw, . Aétacha, now living In Dallas, Lo
retired "business executive, ona .Tex,,” said -he never heard of]: |.
i}charge of “wil ully-and unlaw- Nove
ig". lo.

Sgs=

' Rerry-- Raymond Russo, 28}. ”
I : I.. Arcacha headed an. antj- star Wl Jast}
“4 fully -- conspirin ‘Murder / Castro’ Sroup here in .1991,;:.,. "| Week's emotional court hearing,| = ©
, Kennedy...’ : Fae yo, 196}. ws 4 ae . y
“In. an Affidavit, the ;

ee ee [ete ibe surprisa Appearance ;
that]. Blg Bong Recommended - BO before coment ae “in {ha
Novel fled New “Orleans whilel? In its affidavit, filed with} reraares

. [under - subpoena: PIteceald” he Criminal. District. Court, - the
‘| S6vered © his. business: ties aud] district allorney's ‘ofticy sald]
stated publicly. that he -had-no Novel. should be ‘placed under|
I 1 ¢ turning: “| Sizable bond ‘or the. 6rand jury}:
; will: “be. ‘deprived “Of a most}
importani nd . material i
ness," fee LT IS

m i ' ene ne pe .
“iL . Russo «tol ~ throe- lge

court laut Wook ie heard Sue
-U Ferrie’ and Oswald plotting tn
ae ned pontber 1983 to kill Ken.

oo pene

( udge . : rere Feb, 22, Ferrie As
“harassment.” | Matthew a fous under investigation At ‘that
He. was quoted as describing the| --Novel ‘owned the’ Jamdican| by Garrison. ng
in. Snvestigation-as? "g IntWar, ° a. Jounge “om North! :
“ and- ay. i

“ae saying he‘ first] lampart’ Stre

~ |i The Warren’ Commission: con.
d: the district atturney but} the French .

ot on the fringe of|-

. nd, the commiaalan!.
is [Bald of a sonspiracy but it aulc

t if could not categoriaally|.

. goiabl Bh that therg was No com
racy, “1 per Bein ice :

Meoowad Was Rhot In thé: bary-| |

ment of the Dullag Police station} «*.
“yby Jack ‘Ruby _.tw ays: alter]
the fassasaination 7 re

"| Commenced -- hy
last October,

Jsince his arres

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Security
.. FROM 3 John K. Greaney

SUBJECT _ 7: Gordon Dwane Novel ;

 OGC 76-5787

+: 20 October 1976

Director of Person=2l

‘Associate General Counsel

_1. Gordon Novel is scheduled for zrosecution in New Orleans

. on 27 October on charges stemming from = conspiracy to firebomb some

buildings on Canal Street. He was mentzned extensively in the James
Garrison investigation of the Kennnedy 2:sassination in 1967. Subse-

quently, Novel filed suit against Garriso= and later against Playboy

Magazine for an article they published wich identified-Novel as a CIA
employee. In 1969 the Agency submitted 2 certificate signed by the then

Director of Personnel, Robert S. Wattles, which certified that Gordon Novel -

had: never been employed by the CIA (cczy attached). It may be necessary
to submit a new certificate for the upcoming trial in New Orleans. You

are requested to search your files to determine whether there is any
record of employment.

2. There are two additional defense witnesses that we would
appreciate a search as to any employmezt relationship: »
7 ;
(a) Lawrence B. Rohde
530 "N" Street, S.W.
Washington, ' D.C.
' Employed by: Commonwealth Pug ¢ Corporation
v
(b) Allan D. Bell, Jr.
_ President, DEKTOR C.1.S. Incorporated
5054 Blue Ridge Avente —~
Annandale, Virginia

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— Iti is my jy understanding that these names. have all been traced asa ‘request
- from the Domestic Collection Division with negative results. However, I
: would appreciate a.written response to those traces by close of business
20 October To) that certificates can be prepared. Paes

Lo , 3. ‘Its is possible that a witness from the Office of Personnel may be
“required to appear in New Orleans as a rebuttal witness to testify that
there was no employment relationship with Gordon Dwane Novel, but this
is subject to negotiation with the prosecutor. .

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wasnn STON, D.C, 20305:

OFFICE. OF. THE DIRECTOR

CER RUIFICATE.

Central. Intelligence | Agency, and in that capacity. have! ‘custody: of ~
tha personnel records, of the Central Intelligence Agericy. | These.
personnel records are ‘matatained in the State of. Vieginia, — I have.
directed that:a ‘diligent’ gearch of the Central Sntelligence Apnency
personnel gecords be made.to ascertain- if Gordon Dwane Nevel:
bas over been employed ox considered for employment by. the |
Central Intelligence Agency, The diligent search baa been com-
plated and. indicates that Gordon Dwane Novel, at hia: request | on
22 December 1967, was interviewed as an applicant fox: ernpleyment:
by a& member of the. Office of- Peysonnel, Central Intelligence Agency:
The search indicates also that, based on the information supplied at
auch interview, the interviewer did aot vecommend- employment. and.
hia application far employmont waa net further processed by. the:
Central Intelligence Agency... The personnel. xecords: cf the Geutral
Intelligence Agency contain ne record of employment of Gordon Dwane
Novel Py t the Central 3 Inseliigence Aganey: coe

STATE oF. VIRGINIA y

counTY OF. FAIR REAR)

Notary Public a

Ny fembriocton empizea “ay commission expires 24 | September 1969.

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“CEN; RAL, INTELLIGENCE fenney :
; WASHINGTON, Dic. 20505 cS

F FICE OF THE DIRECTOR”

his ‘is to: sertity that Robert Be Wattles, whose certificate
acted horetos waa at the date thereat custodian of the

persosnel fecords of the Central Intelligence Agency. ia witsese ;

thereof, L have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the |

“Central. Intelligence Agency to be affixed at Fatstax,  Coutys in _

> “Lawrence KX, White fe
a ‘Executive Director-Comptroller
- Central, Untetigence ‘Agency

STATE or ‘VIRCINIA 4 ee
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we, (Swann) At the’ request of Helen, Mr. Kuhn' s

office, élicy” Coordination: Staff, ext 1623,

I asked fora mame trace and. the ~files on the

following, and gave ‘your: name: ; ce ne
j

Mistretta,: ‘Vincent

-b.-13-.Jan.. 1913, ‘Brooklyn NY. ; .

FBI has a continuing: investigation on ‘Subject.

who has been. interviewed and. advised of contacts

with CIA: étween 1970° and 1975.” He: named ‘two BO

people: 6 R.T. Conway.jand a Dr. Jerry Berger.

They--the~ #FBI=-want to know if we. have these people

or any. information on this: man.

SRD is ‘sending file | on Mistretta, covert subject
857074; has nothing on Dr. Jerry onsen there are
three files, which suggest the [R.T. Conway} © two on

( (Robert Conways] one of which is” “a. retired file, -and
one on a [Red Conway}, *¢

Do you want any or all of those? ~

Novel, Gordon Michael ;
b. 7 Feb. 1938 in San’ Antonio, . Texas
Lives in.Houston, Tex. at 414 Baywood Paced Drive.

oo FBI has’ an.active investigation: on the Subject
- ; and they disseminated a memo dated May 27, ° 1976 on ~~
; , ' the Subject but it may.or may not have ‘come to

- Security. ~SRD--is sending: his” -filte- ups

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Oct. 12, 1976
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(aay > news bros os. ‘March - 1967, ia “which CiA is: “ment ioned..

v alse. égclese two clisgings rom. tne New, Orteans: Times- -Picayune,. ‘dated 26.
oe 24.37 Hers! 1967, ich refer to a lie de tector test administered | fo one’
Gordaa. Novel’ in. Mclean, Virginiac : OO

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vewscastéer announced that NBC ‘had located. Gordon Novel ‘and had. =
chimsin: "Washington." . The film then: switcKed to a front view...
stad in an. “arachai fend. showing him answering questions. posed
 cemera, fa) The Vatter asked if Garrison had’ ‘promised,’
an exchan ge. for his testimony. Novel said that Garrison. cee
a-nceded’ money - and -had volunteered to give him whatever. -
3 ce ‘he. needed. (0). ‘The: ‘interviewer asked what was” | a
prosecuting “the! case, . Novel eventually: said’ that it
‘But. before that, “he said that Garrison = reminded |.
“Zoebbels, from wha he: had read. ~The’ ‘inter-
.& second time,  couchinig: it in ‘somewhat - different.
arrisoa. -hape to accomplish, what was his: motive.: Novel”
matter of conjunction: (conjecture) , that-he might»

the Film: ‘returned to”
“The. Jatter stated that NBC had informed: ‘the NO:
‘Submitted: toa polygraph : test - in connection. with -

and: “nad. passed~ it. " = :

attached clippings’ fron the 26 and 27 March ‘issues of ‘the Times=
; not ‘ment ion the. substance of the: NBC interview, . These articles
“NBC tS Raving ‘contacted Novel, in McLean, Mirginia,. rather than. :

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8 | Operations Support Branch/0S © ’
SUBJECT - : Gordon NOVEL .

-the Subject, while residing. in a:local motel, ha
-a.:telephone: conversation: @¢":ac girls They: discussed large

SFN 526113

1. On 31 August 1976, “Major Robert Foster, Defense

_ Intelligence Agency (telephone 11-50418),; contacted
“Mr. Robert Hopkins, Office of Security Liaison Officer,

seeking information’ concerning Subject. He oxp beet that...
erheard i”.

amounts of money with the’ ‘indication it was illegally obtained.
Also,in this discussion, Subject mentioned that. due to this
girl's information, he was. arrested by the CIA -in February . 1976,

“2, On 1 September 1976, Major Foster was contacted by

‘the - undersigned. and advised that the CIA had knowledge of the _

' Subject’, but that he had névér in any way been connected

with the CIA nor had we: ever arrested him. Major Foster |
was informed that the Subject has a long history of imper-

_sonating CIA agents or abusing the CIA's name during. his

activities. It was explained that based on our information,

Subject appeared to be somewhat irrational.

3. Major. Foster advised that he also felt the Subject

_ was a "nut" and appreciated the information offered by the CIA.

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REFERENCES -: ‘Domestic Collections Division: Memoranda

8 April 1976
MEMORANDUM. FOR: chieé, ‘Operations Support Branch

dated 25 February 1976 § 1 March 1976

1. ‘According to ‘the. referenced Domestic Collections

'.Division (DCD) memoranda, the New Orleans DCD .Office had- con-

_ receiving a proposal from Novel which had been rejected. DCD a
_ Agency, with the ‘understanding: that this might also be made

known to any inquiring reporters or United’ States” Attorney s——— an)
DCD stated that they were pleased with this guidance, since ; :

. action taken in this.case is the OGC. guidance supplied. to DCD

with the New Orleans DCD Office.

~ OS:SSD:0SB:alb~

‘sidered proposals: .from Subject in October 1975 and on

9 February 1976 which were ‘rejected. During the last contact,
the DCD representative requested Subject not ' “contact him again.

2. DCD requested Office of. General Counsel (OGC) guidance.
if they should be contacted by the press. concerning Subject's
arrest for conspiring to detonate:incendiary devices in a down-.
town New Orleans building.. OGC recommended that they acknowledge

was also informed that Subject had never ‘been employed by ‘the’

ibsallowed them to: respond candidly to any immediate inquiries.
and also serves to disassociate the sAgency from the difficulties
in which Subject now finds himself. It appears that the only

and the only CIA interest in Subject. is based on his contact

George N. Swann.

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_ SUBJECT: ‘Gordon Novels: terest. on , Bou Conspixecy chargea/Clata of 7 oo Sil oty Saree
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i — op fa), N0-39-76 dated 20 February 1976, ‘Subjects. “Gordon wowed eae
re &) [Houckpuatts: Telecon of 24 February 1976, ‘Same = Subject

Gordon ‘6 Nov 1 had been ‘arrested by "agents “of the ‘US ‘Alcohol, “Tobacco -
_— and Firearms Bureau (ATE) for. conspiring to detonate. Ancendlary devices - co.
“" dnva downtown: Hew Orleans building on Mardi Gras; -2 March 1976... Nove? Re
_ had apparently deseribed such a Plot | ain a conversation he vowLetingly
oy hald with an undercover ATE ‘agent. . .

Be. “a confirmed to Gal Linghouse that: p3 had had a mumber of ‘contacts:
“with Novel ‘Bince October 1975 concerning a proposal which Hovel had offered
. for CIA cansideration. - I told: Gallinghousa: that the’ proposal had been ran
_.. Jected by the Agency, but that I had again: seen Novel ‘on 9 Yebruary 1976
_ | t@ accept additional material in support. of his: praposel. At that time,
.. 1 alse asked Novel not to contact me agains. I.assured Gallinghouse. tbat
- 1°. at no time had Novel been an Agency employee , nor had he ever had any’
»...£ormnal relationship with the Agency. Gallinghousa thanked me for ex~"
“ -.. plaining the nature of our velationship with Noval, and he suggested.
., _ that. he might recontact me later. ‘LE necessary for mors details.

an 3. In the: referent telecon, z briefed the. Deputy, Chief of Operations, —
. Ed Watts, on the development and asked. ‘hin how: I should respond if Galling-
i. house sought acceas to the office file on Koval. Mr. Watts recommended that
4.2 try to avoid giving the ‘US Attorney. direct acceas~to the file, but that | 7
-...°. ££ Gallinghouse should ask to review ‘the file, L should xefer the’ request med
ca ko " Rendquartera for resolution. Py ey ; ce

moe he “Mrs. .Gordon Novel. called ‘ghortly after wy cenversation with
: Messre. Gallinghouse and Watts..— She said that her. huaband had asked -
hee to call ma to insure that federal authorities were aware that her __
. husband had been actively discussing a- proposal for rhe Agency with ma. oo a
oo Mes. Novel said that her husband had been denied. ‘bond, and that he hoped °° a
hig’ éontacts with a DCD officer might somehow convince federal authorities © © 6 0K.
. - that he could be safely released-on bond after all. Otherwise, sha said, ee _
oP we he might be detained. through . the Mardi Gras holiday as a precaution. - ‘Sha’ ae
~~ "!-agaured me that Novel had made no. effort to | persuade the: authorities: that .
he is a. CIA officer or. employes. . ., ceo

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-_ 5. ‘So far, there’ has been no , publicity given t to ‘Novell's. arrest
L) Ox. the charges: ‘against, him. We will. continue to monitor the situation -
.. £or ‘any further. developments Suggesting. a formal relationship between
. the © Agency and Novel. ar ae weal

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. | Chief, Pomastic Collection bivision .. oo Se OE Mapeh 18760
a iepary, chief of Gperations tzd watts) ae ee

S, ” chiee, Dallas: ‘Of fficas
_ Kew Orleans Resident office |

-. costo Povel _ aa a _ 3 foal!

3 colZauutes end. Greaney Houck, tele Jecons. OE: Motch 1975, ee
. A ) NO42-76 dated 33. > ebraary I 1975, ‘Sane sunjeee pel TEE a ea

ds attached ave copies of tvo local news itens coaceraing: the. ae,
. “recent: arreat- o£ Corden Novel for the. illegal possession of an explo- a
. “giwe daviee and’ for conspiracy. te bomb several. ‘Duildings in downtown ~
Mew orleans. In che articie dared/1 March and in recent television ~~ a. re
- yews coverage of the affair, Yovel has been quoted’ as. saying. that. he
ia involved in an important US Government intelligence project and | oO
‘£3 in frequent contact with oa official of the Defense epeartmeat. — _
_Ags we reported in the xeferent meno, ‘ovel tola.ths US. Alcohol, . Tobacco | 7
‘ and Pirearms Durean (ATY) agents who arrested him. that he was working -
on a CIA project, a clain he said rhey could. & verity by calling be ;
Now Orleans Resident GE ELeer.. ve

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“” gocent activities to tha Agency.” in. the referent telécons, however, Wo
., Foqueeted guidance in responding to any. nadie incuixries which might. .
‘|. materdalize.’ John Greaney, Office of General Counsel, xacommended that.
we acknowledge,’ if asked, that Hovel. had. offered the Agency.a proposal
_gwhbich had: subsequently bean re fected. here Greaney ay also confirmed Ebae
- Revel hag never been emp loyed. by the. BONE yA a £act which we might 2 en ie
"make imowa to oy inquiring. tevorters of to the US ‘Attormey, LE mecessery. ;
- We are pleased with this guidance, since it ‘allowa. us te: teapond candidly.
“-| | te any media inquizies, end it alse serves to disascociate the Ager ney ;
foe ‘fron the difficulties. in which Hovel nes + Finds. himself, ae .

pos S al. ve will keep you ‘Informed of any ‘further. dovelofmeats: ‘da this”
met matter which relate. ‘to ) the Agency or to. our evatacts., with Novel. : oe

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involved:i ‘in an “senormous project” with

; Department. ne

Asked if the ° “enormous project” was
“linked to his arrest, Novel said, “Well,
something i is. behind’ this. I think I know
what it is but I Would rather not say.”

whose name sutfaced nine years ago in
‘former Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison’s

interview. é
has. been held.

pending a hearipg Wednesday. -

that Novel tried to hire an undercover

} federal-agent to firebomb five buildings
4. duritig Mardi Gras, when large crowds.

_ would hamper. fremen. Novel called. the |
, ’ anything.” : : 7
We absolutely plan to plead him i inno- Ms :

charge “insane;"’.

The Stott _

“Businessinaa Gordon ‘Novel, ace
| cused of plotting to firebomb downtown
buildings during Carnival, claims he is -

yfta gentleman in the. Defense

: i Novel, identified as a financial.con- _
Sultant with the; Langford Land Co. here .

q Kennedy assassination probes, made his .
comments during a weekend jailhouse :

Novel was arrested Feb. 21 and. charged :

with possessing, a destructive device. “He |
without bond since then, -

“Its $0" insahe that the e government ce

New Orfeans oa

said. Novel. said he was willing to take a

lie- detector test ‘and to submit: to: ques: ;

tioning under truth serum. . -

.”. He said he has been “deeply involved”.
. in “counter-intelligence”: operations. in -

* the past, but did not elaborate:
“I know enough. about the intelligence

community to one day play a major Po _ Dp ate
AGENTS. REPORTED seizing acan nof

litical role i in: tt, 7 ‘Novel said. .

IN: 1963, Garrison accused Novel of : f.
' conspiring with a’Cuban refugee to steal.” *

explosives from an oi] company storage.
“site. Garrison's investigation linked: Lee
Harvey Oswald, the President’s accused

assassin, with a vaguely defined Cuban, -

liberation movement.

"aged but the suit was later dropped. ;
Asked if the current charges’ bore any

_ relation to the’ assassination probe,..
Novel's lawyer, Servando C. Garcia III, ©

said: “It's a. mistake. Itt s not related to

ee ae es oe ne neces teenie ow,

‘ “reallzes the only way that i can make at
" case ts to-allege that I’m. insane,””. he:

‘Novel sued Garrison for $50 million; “
«. claiming: his reputation had been. dam-.
_ Affidavits filed i in federal. court allege :

cent: and pit or on a defense,” Carela sald.

“The facts the U. Ss: Attomey | has « can be Ses
explained. moe: a
~ Prosécutors allege that Novel iried to. wey
~ hire undercover agent W. Lloyd Grafton
: to firebomb several downtown buildings

at the height of Tuesday’s Mardi Gras

* celebration, when fire trucks would be » a
hampered by crowds. ‘

alcohol, balloons, gunpowder, fuses and ~~. ° 7

.Mmatches from: Novel's office on-the 40th -): ~
floor of a downtown building, along with -
“diagrams of the buildings involved. on
~ “That’s absolutely untrue,” Novel said =
_in the television interview. “They found °
‘nothing when they searched my office.”

" Documents filed in federal court indi- * :

‘cated Novel, a real estate financial con- ©.”
sultant, was “having.a few problems”. © -
with some of the downtown property. > * -
which.-was supposedly. the intended tare ee
-Getof the firebombing. .- AS
_. Garcia said he hoped.to. have his client oS & a
. released on bond at Wednesday's Hear- -
: ing. He said there was no reason. fo fo keep.”

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_. Gordon Novel Seized oak
can cea By ED ANDERSON "") four buildings ‘altegedly targeted for the. -
“ 3) New. Orleans businessman Gor-. -atlacks wereviot given.’ - oo  * ;

_don Novel remained in federal: :- The documents, however, said'the. =
> custody Friday’ on -Charges.of pos- “ buildings were located in a three-block.. - :
?Sessing *'a destructive device” in area:of the One Shell Square Building on:
-¢, Connection with ‘an alleged plot to:”..Poydras Street: | ee Pe
. firebomb.and-destroy in succession. Novel’s request for a“bond heating :
“several’® buildings in the. Central. 2". Cont. tn See. 1, Page 117€ 1

» Business District during the
of

"++" Although ‘no formal motive for the ale...
‘leged planiied ‘bombings was given, ~
Sources said that Novel was trying to ob.
* > staln the properties, *”. eo a
“The only: building cited by the court wo
_ documents'as a target for the alleged at-
“+. tacks was-the: Federation: of: Churches
\. Building: located-at330 St Charles Ave... on
_ The sourees‘said the bombs were --
-_ ‘never-planted: in.the-fivé, downtown, _ :
.-buildings and Novel — a figure in ex-Or- Saene
~ + Jeans Parish Dist., Atty. Jim: Garrison's - ce
-investigation into the assassination of. -

the Jate Président Kennedy,— was ar- _ ee

rested Feb. 21... ee a
"He is now being held-witHout bond as‘ a“
federal inmate at the New Orleans Po- |:
'« lice Department's House of Detention: -. . -
>. The court papers also indicate Novel -: : :
tried to hire-undercover agent W. Lieyd-.!
‘Gralton of the. U.S. Treasury Depart
ment’s Bureau of Alcohol; Tobacco and >.
(Firearms (ATF) as the person:to carry”
‘outthe plan, - 1": - Mir a ade
, Sources said the plan was “‘to fire.

_ bomb the buildings ‘In sequence” during.
_ parade limes “when the fire department: ~ aL.
*£quipment.coiild not be brought into the

Central Business: District: -." One >
‘Source said the plan “was to put theny
(bombs) off in Sequence... one after woe

’ the other,” “- eee ne:
“: The ates: and other ‘locations of the

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: ~ . Continued irom n Paget i “met Novel again ‘at his Plaza : Tower of-

we ” _* .fiee-on Feb. Wee-d the: two ‘ sdiseussed -
wag was cot “ved Friday by U.S. Magis» the firebombin, five buildings within -
ae trate Inga.d O. Johannesen until 4 PT: the downtown area.”

: next Wednesday: - ". At that-time. according to the docu-
"The. complaint against Novel claims ments, Novel allegedly showed Grafton
“that when the defendant was arrested. (he equipment as well as what Novel...
a ~Jast week, he w vas in, possession of ‘tan ‘supposedly. described as “jegal wire-.-
- incendiary device,” consisting ofa can tapping equipment.” -

of aleoho!, balloons, a can of black pow-. At that meeting, the papers claim,

-., der. timed fuses and other equipment. Novel allegedly agreed to give Grafton.

. Also confiscated. according to sources, the contract” to destroy the five build-.

were maps: and siagr: ams of the build ings:

” ings.to-be hit: -.. Phat same a , o we : a
_ 7 : y, the docume nts indie oe
a Novel was arrested after ATF agents - cate. Novel supposedly pointed out the”
¥.. learned the device was not registered. ~~ first building targeted for the alleged at-

> «The court, documents also claim that’ tack, and later took Grafton to."'the—

‘although Novel was unaware. Grafton pyilding located between St. Charles and =
was anundercover federal. agent,-he. . Camp Street.” Moe

-“tried to. hire Grafton for the plan at According to. the papers.- Nov el al
$1,600 and. 2 year" s free rent in an apat! ed-to. Grafton ‘‘how

; be to ger ‘Inside: the”

~ Reportedly, Novel and two other men  puilding:”” rane
were supposed to meet with Gov. Edwin: _ At ‘another- smeeting Feb.. ‘18 ‘between lee F
_ Edwards last Saturday in Baton Rouge the twe in Navel's.office, the documents «.
"to discuss the possibilities of ‘getting & _ said, Novel drew a-diagram of the first’,
world’ sfair for. New Crleans.. dargeted building which was described -:
7 -had-a Juncheon’ scheduled - (ast) as bemg “accross thé street from One i
~ Saturday at.the mansion with some peo- - Shell Square.” . ;
ple‘ to talk ‘about tiie exposition,”.the _- Presumably, that building was the -
governor said. “But the name Novel “Greater Federation. of Churches Build-
~ doesn'tring’a bell. |. ~ fing 2" i
_ # “Only one man showed up ‘Saturday. On that same 2 date, the records allege,
DOR: He said the others couldn't make it and” Novel fold Grafton “the fire should ke on : |
_.*~ asked if we could re-schedule the meet- “jhe seeond floor in order for the roof and. -
oad ing. T didn’t even. ask why they. couldn’ t  ftoorta burn completely.” ; H
ee _ makeit. . . Twas then, according to the affidavit, rs er
An aide tothe governor said the gover- - ‘that Grafton agreed tothe plan for $1; co See / oS
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‘ nor’s office was trying. to determine if and the free apartment.
* one. of the three mer was.Novel. -"-  Aceerding to.the-records, ‘Novel also.
-He said records ‘of the appointment presented Grafton a notebook, -contain-.-

& Fens bees 3 a

fee “show only the. time and subject matter of -ing “avplan project‘of. approximately: .
ve z the meeting. uthree blacks near -the One Sheil Square .-
+. és. The’ aide‘ added that Novel may have “Building” which Was also to be part of
been one of the three, but he could not be aa the alleged scheme. |
certain Uptter their series of meetings Navel i
According fo the documents, the ATF - Was arrested by the ATF agents Feb:20. 0 + “| :
]
I

. Bureau received information “froma. Nétel was denied ‘bail the next day. -
. confidential informant” of the alleged. and the gavernment ~ led by Asst. ‘U. $..
(plan -Atty..Al Winters. —:was. granted a mo-—
Grafton, posing asa prospective “hit tion that Novel be examined by a psy- |
man," made arrangements to discuss -. chiatrist te determine his competency ne
the plans with Novel on Feb. 4... * . theproeceedings.. |. a,
.. The affidavit for a, search warrant —" Defense. attorney “Servando. ‘c. !
_ signed. by Johannesén — said Grafton “Sonny” Garcia III —‘a law partner of”
was told by-Novel that Novel “had*~ municipal Court Judge Eddic Sapir, has -
* several buildings he wanted destroyed in’. _Urged that bond be set-for his client. - :

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the New Orleans, La. area. . ..."" Tn tlocuments filed with the court Gar- °° ot if
7

The papers.also show that on Feb. 8 -cia called Novel “a man well respected - See
‘Gratton met Novel at Novel's home; 1718. in the ccnmmunity". whois “regularly. |

_ Lakeshore Drive, where Novel allegedly - “employed as: a: financial consultant,’ mo af te
said “he:had’ made. a firebomb for an. _and a-fazaly m man. ; Coos arnt
individual to burn -the first building he | 7.
"wanted destroyed, but that man failed tori,
“, dothe job. . ;

The identity of that person was not re-*.

’ * wealed i in the documents.

‘Novel said: he “hada few problems!”
_ with some of the property located within’ —
- the: (downtown) project area and-that © .
:was where-Grafton would come wi
in. “according to the affidavit. ~ wo . we ua
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‘OFFICER'S COMMENTS (Number each comment to. show from whom
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:- DOD/CLV-121-75 dtd 47-July 75

Referenced’ memorandum with:
attachments is forwarded. for your.
information and records. ° ‘Please _

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UNITED STATES + OVERNMENT ,

~ Memorandum a  !

‘TO

a Chief,. Domestic Collection Division ST ‘DATE? 17 July.1975 :
ATIN: Information Control Branch (Redman) — re oH.
“FROM : Chief, Detroit Field Office oy

‘BY z Robert B. Noble, Cleveland. Resident Office
"SUBJECT: correspondence of Bossible Interest to Office of Security om nn Sate ts

“REF: Durbin/Noble Telecon, 17 July 1975.

wie ete wide. ~

- 1. On 15°July 1975, an agent of the Cléveland FBI contacted the |
Cleveland Resident: Office concerning the attached correspondence, The
Bureau had received the. letters the same day, and because there were -
“several references to the Agency, the agent thought that our office
should bé, informed. Copies. of--the- correspondence ‘ are attached for
your information and retention.

; Qe The FBI agent who ‘discussed: this matter with: us! ‘stated that:
he had been told that the author of the four-page letter was a-
"professional -wiretapper", had previously been convicted to transporting
; ‘illegal wiretap. équipment across state lines (into Nevada), » and. was /
~ suspected of illegally. obtaining and selling “classified information".
Cleveland FBI plans no action at this. time’ other | ‘than further. Ant —
vestigatory work on the individual, a a ;

3. ‘The ‘cleveland RO. plans to do absolutely. nothing about: this

. matter other. than ‘forwarding ‘the. information to Headquarters,

agent was inforted of: and agreed. to this-course of action,: he: was:
thanked for his concern and. ‘the: matter was. dropped,.

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Sa a COPIES TO: Mr, Dg. Re. McCurdy .° 9° | _
District Manager—Corporate Security

' - Ohio Bell Telephone Company: ,
- 1000 Bxieview Plaza

>, Cleveland, . Ohio 44114:

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Mr. Be Re: Campbell or ; ee a
. re District Security Manager . — _ te of
ae I - Pacifie Telephone and Telegraph Company a Sn ne
eT ; ' 3675. T: Street, Room 108 7
os Sacramento, ‘California 95816
oe Mr. Je Be- Heil, Jv...
eG Staff. Supervisor-Security: |
wo on U2 0" * Phe Ches, and Pot. ‘Telephone. Company
oh 7.) L710 H Street N.We. .
_ 7 oe “Washington, DeCe 20006

bo ‘Mr. Ge Ae Larkin oo
oe . -.- .. General. Security Manager ;
Southwestezn Bell’ Telephone | Company.
-. 1010 Pine Street, Room 1030" | |
Saint Louis; Missouri _ $3101

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Me. Je F. Doherty . _—
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Loe 295 Broadway, Room. 2005. _ eR
New York, New York | LOOOF7
oo es re : ote - | Rez Gordon Michael Duane Novel, aka
ee ee ss Gordon Novel, Gordon Novel Rose ,.:
Coe Ge N. Rose, Godfrey. Ne Rose ©

| ot “Dallas Area File: -g5-169-D :
Dear Mee Doherty?” a ne ee aes

; Enclosed is a Xerox “copy. ‘Of ‘a. letter received by special Se
. messenger on’ July Ts, 1975, from Goidon Novel, making cextain | demands. wet

On Southwestern Bell, AT&® and companies” ‘sexving “Columbus, Ohio, Reno,
Nevada and. Washington, Dd. Cc. (See Page 4, paragraph. 3)

i cnc ps mn ee te ne ee tne ce at dn etn.

Mr. Novel's letter has been reviewed “by our company Legal ee

> : Departiient and. a ‘decision thas ‘been madé“not -to" reply in writings” “|
Mr. Horak, the manager. handling Novel's. account “is to-contact’ Novel * fe
‘and advise him verbally that his. letterhas been referred to higher. LJ
management ;' and : that topies of this’ etter have been forwarded to |:
‘the telephone companiés serving the ‘cities ‘he- mentioned. for any. Jo Pe
-action. they. deem apprépriate. Mr. “Novel'ts propensity for filing Soy.
suit was one of. the main considerations for. choosing: this course of = |
~.. netion.. : ; — am mE
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; Should any. of. the recipients of ‘this ‘letter decide to £6 ; od.
~ contact ox write Novél I would appreciate being notified prior. to’ an oe
your doing so, Our, Legal Department wants to be kept abreast of any a
. xesponse. made made to his Gewands as it might affect the: 2_company 8. course ee
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Mr, .dii Vaughn, Security Supervisor _
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‘Room 1103 °
; Dallas, Texas. T3208

“- magnitude of political, “intelligence: and financial involve-
_ cments for which I am legally: responsible to may: - associates,
-. L deem.it. wise. to . contact, youn office: for. the- following ©
“reasons t , ; ; .

3170 Royal: Lane
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4 Fuay 6 r 1979

Mr. -yaries Horak, Manager

Mr. Carleton C. wright, Jr., Security Supervisor:
308 South Akatd Street i

genviomen:

“Due: to: ‘the. rapidly accelerating natdonal : sens sitivity

of my historical personal interests, as: well as the

“it. is dmperative that your: file’: he revised in order |
to. ccase: reflecting purposeful disinformation, Blaenderows:
_ dpregylarities: and. obvious ‘inconsistencies. about my activities.
his data-has teen maliciously -aceuinulated by : your business” mee

-. ana. sécurity offiees s. during. the past seven years: witile -
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ntruding and interfering in. highly sensitive - 2
and political counterintelligénde research in

>> whiéh I was: anvolyed. To accomplish this, A, T, “& i. has
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_ covering. “antigipated" financial. loss to the phone company.

(my phone: billb have always been paid. ‘Promptly. )..

ee the police tactics’ used by yours offices--harrassnent,
EX 5 threats, extortionary demands-.-have’ been —- ;
verified ‘throughout: fexas. and in Washington, D. C. However,

'- the ‘highly. sensitive’ nattre of the work An whielr we are 9 0
. currerrt Ly- involved could, - conceivably, pose.a threat:-to
national security because of this invasion of privacy “where ©
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a major DoF region aerospace and manufacturing concern; —

“pelected by the President of the United States as the |
~ next. Director. of. the ‘Central Intelligence - Agency.

: them, can be verified and will be verified if the oo
 ". aotivities of which: I. vam complaining. do not cease ae IE
_“Ammediately. > os oe tin Ce SE

ab ‘my’ Dallas. residence, July 2, 1975, I have reviewed-my —. - i

. of the: R. B MceMasters bILIing responsibility, alleged dy - ot
“Mr, Horak in his. letter of the’ same date, written on Plain. }
.o Wateriarked: ‘stationery bea#ing: ‘questionable signature, “ote!
”. Phat purportedly. official: telephone: company document. ‘elas: -
“that Lowe ‘your -company $1,041.49. ~Ideny any responsibils cy. 2
for the réasonh that Mr.. MeMasters | personally” effected the we .
installation 6f ‘the phone at 3055 Leahy (243-6382), invhis’. ~
“>. name and as..an officer of the now-defunct Genesis Gorpora~ .
. tion, I have. caused’ approximately. $20,000. tb be. paid to

_ -fal- business ventures and I have no intention of assuming - °
responsibility for something else i-do ‘not owe in Mr. rn

_:. MeMasters behalf. He arid the Genesis. Corporation were: | i
oo. personally. and corporately. responsible for the: pills: for ©
i. that phone and qT. -am certain: your: records: wild reflect same... a

“Horak, , Vaughn ana Wirt

- doy “Current interest in the. ‘abguieltion of a -

ia) omhe aistinct possibility that I wilt be ly

ACHES.

“ape forégoing ‘projecte;: ‘and our ‘dnvolvement with

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records: and’ do:-not find a willing nor direct acknowledgment

MeMasters, privately and. corporately, for his unstictess~_

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Sd se Wy” records “reflect that. ‘hundreds. of ‘vindictive; 0
@ Bparaging: @nd slanderous long-distance telephone calisp =:
Mere placed ‘Dy, your company's collection opera tors. alleging ©

_ 3 that I did owe. the bill. . Yhese ‘calls caused ine and my Loe

- apRociates severe personal and financial damages. ZL deinand
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“Messrs. Hora, Vaughn and Wetght
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a fo Relative: ‘to the telephone humber- at: 3770 Royal
= “Dane, OT 358-2802, I acknowledge that G.'N,..Rose and
- 3 "| Gordon ‘Novel.are one and the same. “person. I am certain —

' that: you. have been avare of this for .many. months. .- “My.
- o- . fantly and: my attorney assure me that’ Gordon Novel is
to. . the. legally incorrect one. Since I have: lived 37 years.
-o.  - ag. Gorden Novel, I do not wish. to: have it changed in court:
_ toe Bult. “some idiosyncrasy. of your legal department.

a . the: bills: for. this ‘number are current. and have. been . id
. promptly paid, in'cash, on time since it.was installed’ ‘last. a

year. *- Your’ inconsistent--off again, on dé faln--policy; ~~ ob.
ce and now. escalating deposit demands, are probably negotiable; a
Bt be. only. in accordance with the following terms oe TS

oe Upon. instructions from wy attorneys, I am. formally :
—acinanding that your : offiee and A, T.&2.. -furnish..written os. a
assurance, in affidavit . fort, . that heither ‘your Dallas’- 0° 7:
office nor 41¢s Columbus, Ohio, Reno, - ‘Nevada, and Wash ing-
ton; : De C.5. counterparts has. at any: time within, the: pa
“seven years. surreptitiously ‘intercepted or monitored , by _ :
". wire any aural conversation of Gordon: ‘Novel /G;: WN. Rose | J Fs
without -the ‘authorization.of a Federal, State or Judicial
_" Municipality Legal Court Order, in accord with the. ‘provisions,
‘OL TitLe- ~LLE of the. Omnibus: Crime Bill of 1968.

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- me stich legal. ‘written. assurance: is not. fortheoning

‘om your office. within ‘seven (7). working: days; we have ——

_ tructed our. Washington, D. C.,. attorneys: to file. . ;

\ appropriate . federal civil actions pers sonally. achinat some a
, Apdividual ‘security. and. management. officials and against: .
-Southwes tern Bell and A,T. er. mo

a 2. further. request that the outgoing ala nervied at
pak 358- 2608 be > temporarily suspended, but. that incoming,

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8 peguilutions and community service respons Sboilities, 0 oe.
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2 suspend, until Turther notice: from eithe?> our 2 :ttormeys.
“. or from: me, the paid- -for service and notify akl callers 4°
including A. T, 8&0, executives. with: whom IT am currently

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‘to Desiroy Tapes Was Hyed —

Watergate committes which,
Colson surmised, would leak it. -

aok Autersam.
By Jack Andes ® t ; Novel, however, obvionsly| taped material end scramble all
_ Former presidential aide! thought he had a mandate from|compnter “memories” ‘in itslryey he and Novel would raveal -
Charles Colon ance considered | Colson... He journeyed to Ei{path. 7 ‘|thetape was freudulent and the.
‘}fiting a high-voltage Buck Rog-| Paso. Tex. and spcke with Jack! One part of the seleme was to thoax would tend to disereditine
ers-siyla cannon at the White|Prontice, innovative rasearch| bombard thu ClA~and tho lize-tynoie caso against Mr. Mixon.
House to erase the taped con-(zud design chief ior Jetco, lac, }sistibie jolt of magnetism might Colson said it was ‘true he dis-
. fversationsof Richard Nixon. | Jetco already was marketing a{blot out priceless Ziles of Ras-lcussed this idea. “Wouldn't that
| Such “a” mission, impossible |metal detector using.“degauss-|sien and Chineso agents and|no a great gag!” his statement?

[kore encouragement.” stroy huge quantities -of other

‘|would Lavo wiped out the evi-|iug” principles... other espionagé. and securitylsaid. :
dence on fhe White Housetapes{ Prentice told Novel, and con-j matters, Baker's. Bolmbsheli—Robby-

: [waiek led to Mr, Nixon's resig- | firmed to us, that he bad builtal In bis report to Colson, Novel ipaker, the former Senate aide -
‘Instien. Colson, however, con-{prototype cannon’ and could {said hiding in the heavy woods iwho went to ‘prison in a cele
fonds bo uever seriously pon-/constract an operational anefor|neur the CEA, or “degaussivug” lurated scandal of the early...
dered putting the scheme into | $25,000 to $30,000, Prentice be-|the tapes from the tank-vay 1880s, kas eémpleted mora than ‘
Ty ; lieved that because the tapes| while they were in transport, of- Inaté of a book that will embar--

action. 7 Ty. ne
 Gespite this denial, Colson | belonged to the President, thorelf ered a butter chance of success jrass some presen’ senators.
ANI Mear WICG-WiGs al 1RGiS.(wodid Go ao crime in erasing! ‘ :

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i Hirini xesearcn consultant, Gor-ithein if Colson, acung ier iwepue CIA vi the White Tauss Wan, Bexei iusisie les lois wTit-
: jon Novel, aud diccussed tue | President, osayed it. jfremaplage, - . ine a ernel book about these
i. pesuipniiy ef using an experi-| The Jéteo specialist drew upal Butas Novel recalls it, hoand| oho condemned bim. Indeed,

mental “degaussing cavnon” to | simple plun for the “dogaussing!Coison mutually desided nottolthe book will centain many
fire a gigantic magnetic pulseat|cannon,” using capacitors, atpursue the plan because of its!warm anecdotes about promi- -
_|the White House tape storazejswiteh, @ parabolig retlector|danger to -national . security fnont political figures, |.
-. |rocr, A rough design of the ray|and a special heat resistant coil.{tapes and computers near the} pet ths hock will charge that
jgun, uamed. afier a magnetie|The electronic ertilery piece|targettapes: 6 7” Sen. Barry Goldwater (f-Ari
-|messuroment, was even drawn|could be housed in a van, or| Colson scoffs at the idea that!now the Senate's “Mx Clt
up. Ss , rounted ina light plang cr heli-|the magnetic beam ever came ligicted arms for political Sands
-| “Novel talked’ about driving} copter. - thet close to development “Ilyhen he was the Reaublican
by the White House and de-} On Marck 21, Novel weote Col- laughed at it,” he said. “It was a 'Senate eampsign chairman.
mesuetizins all the tapes,” Col-json that he would “forward by{litie bit of comic relic£” But] Pever will ebide the present.
|5en told us from prison through j hand courier the known facts on[Mr. Nixon valeht have had fears lanostie of political reform, Gen
 [rlends. “Te was something that {the Ei Paso erasure matter,” the|Coison would ba a sucker forlsnm Brein (O-N.G) for voting:
‘jhe -said watld iire three|codename for the “degausser.” [just suchi farout ideas. In the jconsistantly against reform in.

blocks? +. oe ; -Shorily thereaétcr, the indus-|transeripts, Nixon said Colson (times past. .

_ Novel, vhbis also ae electron-ltrial conswitant ew te Waek-|“leves the action .. . Colson!” poner also will point out that”
ics expezt, told us he was visit-|ington again sini taiked tPongpvould do anything.” . Sen. Carl Curtis R-Neho, who
jing Cuison in March on an wnre-fof this srva’s hest known ween Footnote: Colson and Novel louw ao great wrong in President
lated legal matter when thetalk| tropics men, Alan false discussed a caper to patch fixon’s conduci, -Isshed aut

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| REL ASE |

- Richard. E. “Sprogua :
o Hartsdale, N.Y. 10530 _—

+. Walter Sheridan has recently been hired by the.

- Democratic National Committee to head their investi-
“gation of the Watergate bugging caper. In view of.

- +. the importance.of this assignment, it would seem *

past investigations.
oa “Getting” Hofta, and False Testimony
ct in 1961 when he spearheaded Robert Kennedy s
_. /dyive against: Jimmy Hoffa, during Robert's tenure -
-. as Attorney: General.

no mercy: shown, course of action to "get Hoffa", and

-rather dubious’ techniques. were used, which later

The Watergate Incident

“On June 17 at 2230-a. Mey five men- were . .
arrested in the offices of the Democratic
- National Committee ‘in the Watergate Hotel,
‘Washington, D.C. “They had broken into the —
office, and were found with electronic: sur- ~
veillance devices, cameras for photographing ”
documents, etc; they. were wearing: surgical
Tubber . gloves. ‘They: were arrested by . police.

These ‘five men were James. Ww. McCord, Jr...
Bernard L. Barker, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Re
"Martinez, and Virgilio R. Gonzales. °

‘Their connections reach to the Republican ~~
Party, the Commitiee to Re-Elect the Presi- ~
dent, President Richard M. Nixoa, the Central
Intelligence Agency, and other persons and.

orga zations. --

Beginning in August 1972, "Computers and
Automation" nas been publishing articles on .
the Kutergate Incident and its ramifications,
because of the threat that this incident rep-

' resents to democracy in the United States,
‘. and, the impartance of seeking the truth about
it. and pinning down the-responsibility for it.

oH HISTORICAL

worthwhile to examine ir. Sheridan" s | performance: in’

a Walter Sheridan first: ¢ came “into: national ‘promi~

‘Sheridan pursued a relentless, -

. get him he did. In thé course of this crusade, some

a half ‘later. De

esiigator? |

“The NBC broadcast of June 19, 1967” put on by Walter Sheridan “will probably stand for
_ years as a symbol of the lengths to which some pawertut outside interests will 90. in order
: Sate to interfere wi th. state government.” . . . .

came back to haunt Air. ° Sheridan: “The: prime “example
“was the “uncovering” of a key witness against floffa,
one Grady Partin of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, ©
Louisiana. Partin was some years: later accused by _
ya grand jury of giving false testimony against .
Hoffa. :

“Getting” Garrison _

* itr. Sheridan‘ 5 most notable ‘performance came in.
- 1967 and "68 when he was an executive producer for

| NBC-TV news. Sheridan produced a one-hour. NBC spe-

cial on Jim Garrison's investigation of the assassi-
‘nation of President Kennedy and the trial of Clay.
Shaw for conspiracy to murder the: President.. The ..-

_ program, broadcast on June 19, 1967, was a highly ¥.

biased, provably dishonest, personally vindictive,”

' attack on Garrison defending Shaws-~ The Shaw triar" =" -

did not take Place | until. February, 1969, a year and

- Arcest by Gartison- aid Indiciment by Grand jury -

. Walter Sheridan was “arrested: by. Garrison. ‘on
July 7, 1967, following the NBC Special, and in-
dicted by a grand jury on two counts. The first: |
was. attempted bribery and intimidation-of a witness.
Rick Townley of -station WOSU, the NBC affiliate in .
New Orleans, was arrested and indicted with Sheridan
on the same charges. -The federal government, es-
pecially the Justice Department, made sure. that Gar-
rison was never able to bring Sheridan and. Townley.
to trial. .The indictments: are still open.

. If the Sheridan trial ever does take place, the
conviction should not be too difficult. Here are. ~
the facts, as reported by both New Orleans newspa~"
pers, the Times Picayune and the States Item, in
1967 and summarized in "The Kennedy Conspiracy” by.
Paris Flammonde, Meredith Press, 1969.

Sheridan and Townley, having been assigned by:
NOC to cover the Garrison-Shaw case, became person-
ally and directly involved. The indictments for
bribery, suppressing and altering evidence, and in-
terfering with the trial, did not begin to tell the
-entire story. NBC top management, Frank McGec, the
narrator of the special, and others at NBC, fully

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‘basked up Sk voridan, untill
‘and, fakes «ia the program. were revealed.

Apotoay by Nac for Lies Totd by Two “Witnesses”

Frank McGee later had. to apologize ‘on NUC. for
‘lies tald by two of Sheridan's "witnesses" on the
weial. Sheridan and Townley paid them to-give ©

‘statements against Garrison. “The FCC ruled that -
“NRC had to give: Garrison equal time .after Garrison.
- giade au appeal, because the special had aot been a ~

Rews program, -but an NIC-Sheridan vendetta ‘against.

_Garrison.: NOC did give Garrison 30 minutes (the-
aspeciai was. one hour) to respond at ‘a later date in-
01967, : .

* the case, at one point the President of NOC helped

in the. bribery efforts -by. calling Mr. Gherlock, head’
EquitabYe Life Insurance Co. in New York. . Gher-

“08
lock was asked. for assurance that Perry Russo, who

wworked for Equitable in Louisiana, would cooperate
‘with MIC on the Garrison special. Russo was the
key witness in the Shaw trial: whom Sheridan and ..
“Townley tried to bribe. .

“t9 remind the reader ‘about the Shaw trial, “Jim

; Garrison opened an investigation into the assassina- .

‘tion of President Kennedy in late 1966. Senator -- .
“Long of Louisiana had convinced Garrison that a.
aspiracy had existed. Lee Harvey Oswald's ac-

along with the strange actions of David Ferrie, on

Dut a curious newspaper reporter named Rosemary

Chay Shaw's other, identity, Clay Bertrand, had al-
“\peady been uncovered by Garrison, and his involve-

_ ment in the planning for the assassination had al-
. ready, been Suspected by early 1967.

Party in David: Ferrie’s Apartment -

- "> Perry Russo’ attended apa
“apartment where Clay Bertrand, Ferrie, someone re- °

“sembling Lee Harvey Oswald -and others. had. discussed. |-

- the possibility of assassinating President Kennedy.
_ He became the -key witness when Garrison arrested -

Shaw on March 1,°1967, anda grand jury indicted -

. Shaw on March 22 following two hearings on. March 14

‘and Merch 17 by a three judge panel and ‘a four judge

Effort to. Have ‘Russo Change His Testimony

| Sheridan and Townley both ‘made up their ‘minds, :
“along with most of the news media and the Justice
‘Department, that Garrison had. to be stopped at all

costs, They. decided to really go to work'on Perry

“ Russo, since his testimony was all important «

i. Townley tried to get Russo to change his testi-
.. .. cmony at the Shaw trial to make it seem that Garrison
- °° “had hypnotized ‘him and had then asked him leading.
" “questions to get Russo to testify against Shaw.

“Townley and Sheridan went to Russo's house, his of--

fice, and met him at other places. They badgered

him and attempted to bribe him. They pressured and

threatened him. They used every trick in-the book:
to try to get him to. change his testimony.

They threatencd him with being discredited, made
to scem ifsane, and perhaps fired from his job. They
offered him a chance to work closely, for high re-

‘wards, with NBC in Sheridan's ali-out effort to get
Garrison. Sheridan’ told Russo, “We're going to de-

ic of the lies, bribes’.

California where Russo always wanted to live, if he.

Te iiwstrate Sheridan’ s and NBC’ s- techniques ino

tivities in New Orleans prior to the assassination, o

othe day of the assassination, attracted Garrison's —
attention. He had not made his investigation public,..

James ~ broke the story after a few months of effort...

y in David ‘Ferrie's.

"panel, recommending that Shaw be ‘held for trial...

_ Garrison" » was packed with Sheridanese. . Here are.

_ stroy Ga on and’ his. case ‘along ith him." Tosaiey|
told Russ6: that he could geu’Shaw's lawyer, Dymond,

to go easy on hin. ab the trial, :if he would alter -

his testimony. fle told Musso that his employer had je

> promised NUC that no- retalistion would be ‘taken’

against Russa if he cooperated with NBC.. Iowever ;-
he might be fired if he didn't cooperate. *

" Sheridan told Russo-that NUC could set him‘up in.

helped bust up the Garrison probe. Sheridan said.
"AUC would pay. his expenses to California and to live

_there, would. protect his job, would get Russo an

“Lawyer, and would guarantee that Garrison woul
. never extradite him back to. Louisiana.

__Gordon: Novel, Worker for (

“Another important withéss - in the’ Shaw trial was’

“Gordon Novel, a bugging and electronics expert who" :
-worked .for the CIA.- Garrison tried to subpoena nim; |
“put he. left New Orleans and {led to Ohio. Garrison

was never able to extradite Novel from Ohio to ‘Loui-y
siand in spite of: Novel's public statements that he |”:
- knew who had killed David Ferrie... (Ferrie died mys- mt

, teriously shortly after. Garrison’ s probe. became _Pub= |
lie _knowledge. de !

Walter. Sheridan told: Perry Russo that. NBC had -
helped Novel ‘escape Garrison's clutches by. flying - :
“him out of Louisiana.to McLean, Virginia Chome of ©

“ the CIA). NBC paid for a lie detector test te be’

a “ administered : to Novel in McLean... The test was sup-

. "posed te prove that- Novel was telling the truth when

-he said he knew. nothing about the Kenacdy case. |.

Sheridan told Russo that NBC’ would do the same thing

» for him that they had done. for Novel, namely, make | -

sure that Novel would never be extradited to Louisi-| -—
ana. to testify. . Since Novel never was extradited ~ Lon
and since Governor Rhodes of Ohio blocked: his extra-
“dition making Governor cKei then of Louisiana ex-
tremely angry, it would. seem thet Sheridan: was right! |
NBG did possess. a lot of clou . Lo.

‘Sheridan. and Townley. also went. work on Gordon
-Novel's former wife, Marlene Mancuso. She was. '
another important | Shaw ‘trial, witness... because..of..her,
knowledge about. Novel's CIA activities and a bur=_~
glary ‘of a munitions dump in Houma,: ‘Louisiana. an
.,Townley called her and~ tried to convince her to -

“grant a taped interview for useé.on the NBC show..° a
. He said Garrison was going to. be destroyed and that.
_ She should cooperate with NBC a : ;

- The NBC Special on n June 19, 1967

vee The (NBC-Wal ter: Sheridan” special “on. “June: 19,
1967, titled "The JFK Conspiracy —. The ‘Case of Jim:

the principal examples:

A lawyer named Bean Andrews in “New Orleans had
‘played a key role in the Shaw trial because Clay:.
Bertrand had telephoned chim ina hospital. shortly
_after the assassination and. asked him to represen
Lee Harvey Oswald. Andrews. told so many different:
Stories about Clay Bertrand that the truth was § dif-"
ficult to determine. te Lo ;

_ Frank’ McGee asked Andrews on the program about |
Clay Bertrand and whether he was Clay Shaw. Andrews
said Bertrand was actually Eugene C. Davis, a bar —
owner in New Orleans. Sheridan's coup quickly blew |
up in his face when Davis denied the whole thing.
When the trial finally took place, Shaw was pegged |
as Bertrand by a woman who saw him Sign his name as “Pr
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"s sccond ‘ab Lemp was to attack the credi-
ernoy Bundy, a witness for the prosecution

weWwha had seen Oswald and Shaw together on the New Or-

‘Jeans lakelyeat (Lake Portciiartrain).: Sheridan
Soowed up two "witnesses" agaiast Bandy. NBC pre-
sented Join "the Baptist” Cancler, a burglar and
el Torres,. also a ) burglar, who had. been. ac-

ainted with Bundy. :

Sheridan, paid Cancler and Torres: to make state-
‘uments on-the program. ‘Cuncler-said that Bundy had.

: ated to him that his story regarding Oswald |
law was not true. Torres asserted that Bundy's
imony was "an out-front-lie". Cancler said he
i ticen approached by members of Garrison's staff .
“plant someting, in-Shaw's’ house. Torres claimed
that’ he had been asked (by Garrison) totestify that
” Shaw had made. homosexual advances toward him and
“also: that Shaw was Bertrand. : .

-Frank NeGee reported that NBC had: discovered _
* Buridy was lying during his polygraph test and Gar~
Yison ‘knew it but let him testify anyway. -

” Cancler Sentenced to 18 Yoars a

: Following t the wv show, Cancler was called before.

. “the Orleans Parish grand jury and asked to repeat”
ooh accusations under oath. Cancler took the. fifth

amendnent, refusing to reiterate his TV charges. The

and asked him to repeat. Cancler again took the.

‘fined $500 or one year, . Apparently Sheridan had

“paid -him a lot more than’ $500. ‘Two weeks later

““Caneler was handed a third Gonvinction and sentenced
“aoneightesn, years as a multiple offender. |. °

Miguel Torres was ‘also brought before a grand

_ jury and took the fifth when he was asked, “Were =.
_ the: Slatements you made on national - television on
“NDC in June 1967, “concerning the district ‘attorney,

true? .

“James: Alcock, Garrison‘ S assistant district at-"
torney who handled the Shaw trial, saidto the judge, ©
“Torres and Cancler just tell the television and
Walter Sheridan about it.. When they have an oppor-
. s tunity: todo Something they take the fifth amendment.”

‘Sheridan Could Not Get Russa to “Cooperate”

Lod. “Sheridan hiaself. appeared: « on screen to discuss
' Perry Russo.’ He could never get Russo to change.
“his mind and cooperate, so Sheridan interpreted for
the. audience what Russo had told him. . He stated .
that Russo told him that his testimony against Shaw .
_ may be a combination of truth, fantasy-and lies.

Andrew Sciambxa, Garrison's assistant district
attorney who interviewed Russo, delivered a memo to
“Garrison, detailing Walter Sheridan's efforts to
-bribe and threaten Russo. The statements made by

--Russo to Sciambra-were very incriminating about
- Sheridan. The net ‘result of all Sheridan's efforts
: :were that Russo stuck to his story at the trial.

Fred Leemans, “Witness”

4 Sh veridan’ Ss Last. "witness" on the show was Fred
Leemans, another bar owncr (Sheridan seemed to
Specialize in bar owners) and former Turkish bath
Operator. Lecmans said that his original statements
iven to Garrison about Clay Shaw were not true and
that his psyche began to trouble him. The morality

of his actions, wegan ‘to, weigh. upon. his mind. Perris:
ca little: of Sheridan's. green: ‘stuff weighed even more
“heavily.

-his testimony.

“his appearance for’ an. interview.-

_Vvich. Garrison found out about the meetings and-

jury foreman imaediately took Cancler before a judge .
Stand for years aS a.symbol ofthe lengths to. -

fifth and was found guilty of contempt of court and —_ "which some powerful outside: interests will goin:

At any rate he-recanted his claim taat Clay.
Shaw had come to the Turkish ath, that he (Lecmansy.
had associated the name ‘Bert cand: with Shaw, and that :
on.occasion he had beca accompanied ‘by a young -
slightiy-bearded man whom he called “Lee”. Lemans”
said on TV that-Garrison had offered him $2500 for.

The New York Times telephencd Lcemans following
He refused 26.
speak about his. NOC bit, conceding that. he had ar-
ranged to give the Associated Press. the exclusive, ,
story. He said, “After all, I have to get something
out of all of this."’.On hearing. this: line,: one of*
Garrison's staff smiled arid said, “Ah, - now. that";
the Fred Leemans we all recognize :

' Bribing and Attempting to Bribe Witnesses 7

“In addition to “pribing: ‘and attémpting to. ‘bribe:
witnesses, Sheridan also had meetings with one of
Garrison's part-time investigators, William Gur-

did not give Gurvich all of the information he
wanted. : :

Jim Garrison said about Sheridan and ‘the NBC - 2
broadcast, “Aside from the fact that it insulted ---
the intelligence of every American, “it was a very”
‘clear attempt to prejudice in advance possible . /
jurors in the case.. This program will probably.

order to interfere with state government."

Critical.

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— The reliability: and social. significance 7
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Accordingly, Comouters and Automation publishes
from time to time articles and other information
related to socially useful input and output of data
systems in a broad sense. To this end we'seek to
publish what is unsettling, disturbing, critical
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‘SUBJECT: | NOVEL, Gordon
_ (See also FURR, Lioya B.)
(See also ARCRCHA- SMITH, Sergio)

ALLEGATION: CIA CONNECTION:
Gordon NOVEL, former None

owner of a French Quarter Bar
in New Orleans, was subpoenaed
- by. GARRISON as a material. —
witness in March 1967 but
‘ NOVEL moved to Columbus, Ohio
and has avoided extradition.
GARRISON charged NOVEL

with burglary of the Houma ae A u STG
Munitions Bunker in 1961 ,
together with David FERRIS RELEISE

and AROKCHA-SMITH.
claimed this was a a
~. _operation but later his —
A attorney. denied the story.

: SOURCE:

Numerous news items » the
latest dtd in October 1967.

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OS INDICES RESULTS: :

‘Subject's file contains newspaper clippings dating from March
1967 when GARRISON charged him with conspiracy in connection with
a burglary of a munitions bunkée at Houma, Louisiana in 1961 together
with David FERRIE and ARCACHA-SMITH. To avoid arrest, NOVEL left
New Orleans, first going. to McLean, Virginia where he was given a.
7 lie detector test by Lloyd B. FURR, a private detective. (See summary
. on FURR). This incident tended to give credence to NOVEL's initial .
claim that he was working for CIA because of the Kgency' s promimity to
McLean > Va.

. After NOVEL vacated his New Orleans apartment in March 1967
a letter written by him was found under the linoleum on 4 sink
drainboard by the new tenant, a girl who turned it over to her boy
friend, who. gave it to a professor at a New Orleans university who in
turn gave it to a reporter on the New Orleans STATES-TTEM; Hoke. MAY.

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' sheriff was notified to “clean up" gambling and other vice in Louisiana.

- Although ARCACHA-SMITH had no Agency clearance, NOVEL could have gained-:

and Colonel Thomas BURBANK, State of Louisiana Police Superintendent, was

Belle Chasse. It is noted from news items concerning: NOVEL's testimony

Hoke MAY was granted a Covert Security Approval in April 1958 ;

for unwitting use by Project FJINDULGE. MAY was not to be directly |
employed by. FJENDULGE but was to be used in connection with his
position with a prévate firm which handled work for the Project. |.

The letter was presumably written to a "Mr. WEISS" in CIA and referred
to classified DOUBLE-CHEK activities in. ‘1961 in which NOVEL claimed
he was involved. This matter was reviewed by. CI/R&A at the time the .
matter received publicity and it was determined that DOUBLE-CHEK

.was created by the Agency for the sole purpose of making payments’ to
‘the widows of American flyers who participated in the Bay of Pigs.

No connection with NOVEL could be established. NOVEL: knew Sergio
ARCACHA-SMITH who was New Orleans head of the Frente Revolucionario .._
Democratico, an Agency created and supported anti-Castro organization.

an impression from him that he was employed by: CIA..

“In October 1967 NOVEL was granted immmity from amest by GARRISON
on the Houma Bunker burglary charge and returned.to Louisiana to
testify before the East Baton Rouge Parish Grand Jury. in their probe
on crime and labor troubles in the State of Louisiana.

DETAILS:

The Agency had no connection with the Houma Munitions Bunker.
However, an Agency training site was located at Belle Chasse, Louisiana

one of the Louisiana officials witting of Agency affiliation with
before the Louisiana Labor probers in October 1967, that Colonel BURBANK —

was also a witness at the same time, although, there is no mention that
BURBANK and NOVEL knew each other. BURBANK testified that every Louisiana

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20 May 1969

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT : Gordon Novel
#526113

he had received a call from. Mr. ; Bienvenu, . Director. of. Security,- -
National Security Agency, regarding a possible impersonation.

by Subject. . According to Mr. iehvyenu, an ex-Federal Bureau of
Investigation agent, Mr. Russel, Aufrancé,93256 South Union
Avenue, Alliance, Ohio, 44601, “Sh called Mr, Mathison and
advised that a contact of his had‘ 4 hat Subject had shown a _
CIA credential and indicated that he was employed by the Agency.
Mr. Aufrance advised he called the National Security Agency to
bring this matter to the attention of the highest security officials
in Washington and.that if anyone wished to cmtact him they should. -.... ©
call him before 5:00 p,m,, this date.

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1, On 20 May 1969,- the Director of Security advised that

2. After reviewing Subject's file and confirming that Mr.
Aufrance was an-ex-Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, I briefed [v
the Director of Security who requested that I call Mr, Aufrance and
advise him that we were knowledgeable of Subject and that on other
- occasions he had inferred he was employed by CIA, In addition, that
So we ‘intended to turn'this information over to the Federal Bureau of
ty ; Investigation for investigation since the FBI had jurisdiction on such
impersonation cases,

3. Llater briefed Mr.. Fred J, Cassidy, FBI/Liaison,; who
suggested that I advise Mr. Aufrance to report the information to
local FBI agents, In Mr, Cassidy's presence, I called Mr, Aufrance
who repeated what he had told Mr. Mathison, He also stated that
Subject's wife is-now separated from him and is suing him for divorce
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tear gas weapon and some kind of a .22 caliber pistol, concealed asa
fountain.pen, She stated that Subject is leaving Columbus for Reno, |
Nevada, where he intends to open a gambling establishment. In further

- discussion with Mr, Aufrance, he indicated his source was a friend of
‘Subject's wife and. from other statements he made,. it is believed that his
. source is Thomas. FE, Hughes, Jr., who was interviewed by the Chicago

Field Office on 18 April 1969.

4, After further discussion with Mr. Aufrance during which he

‘indicated he was leaving for a fishing trip in Canada and would not

return until Sunday, 25 May 1969, it was agreed that he would contact

- the local Federal Bureau of Investigation and brief them regarding

Subject and that I would, meanwhile, alert. FBI Headquarters/ Washington,

. which could follow- “up with the local office.

5, Ithen provided Mr. Cassidy with all pertinent information

- xegarding Mr, Aufrance's telephone call and all information on Subject,

Mr, Cassidy. will keep us advised,

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'. Arthur C, Sheridan
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‘Chicago Field

The case. was genera
“by: eventé that” “took ‘place. ‘in ‘the: Chicago,. Illinois area,
‘No.special: xequirement . was levied by: Headquarters), -however

~ Office in Chicaga,’ “Illinois, ‘contacted the Chicago. Field-
‘Office and advised. that Mr. Robert FAY, Special: Agent with:
the Chicago” FBI Office, had called the DCS Office with =
reference to. some person by the name of "Mr... ROSE", (phonetic
who purportedly represented himself as-a CIA representat
n-some telephonic’ contacts: with the office of Mr. Tom:
HUGHES, ‘Prosident: of Ms F. “Hughes: O11 & Coal. Company, in}
‘Chicago. .. The "Ma". ROSE" ‘reportedly told. Mr. HUGHES!. of £461
hat he waa. with-thoe. CIA and. that it was urgent. that: Mr.
HUGHES come ™ “tonight. ‘to Room: oe Ambassador. East. Hotel,
hicago,. ‘on an_important— .
we identified: as: Mr .¢

“"4 ROSE’, therefore,
““gase and could not ‘officially enter the case. . .
os gadd that he hads instructed Mr, HUGHES to refuse the:
o.-dnyitation to go-to Room 551, Ambassador East Hotel,. ‘and.

that, if "Mr. ROSE‘! called, again, that: Mr,. HUGHES should
oo. eontact ‘Agent, ‘FAY... Agent FAY further advised the’ Chicago |

~-Bield Office that. he had. verified through the front: desk . Be
“at the: ‘Ambassador. East’ Hotel that @ "My ROSE" was: a ‘registered
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the. ‘prior. approval. by" ‘and soordination. ‘with Headquarters”. -
aes Tim. HARRINGTON) ,. “Mr; Thomas. F, HUGHES , JM. ‘previously oe .
mentioned , MAB interviewed under. “Agency- cover. atthe Sage! a a
éChigage,.: These

oe anne ee.

“the next day:

ae is a ‘regular patron. with. ‘special: privileges

}. Without. permission, he walked into a. closed

tion ‘of the restaurant. and - ‘selected. a table for. th
‘t ‘bs da’

“year ge and” about. ‘5

d 155/160. -pounds,..dark blond. (or even light. brown)
hair, whieh he- wears short and combed straight. down... He is
neat alid trim, walks. with-confidence and agility, and appears.
; conscious - Of: his: appearance.” He was dressed ina powder. blue:
guit, white turtle neck shirt and dark loafers... “He: moved. -
round. and talked with a smooth, confident, self-assured -
manner. Based upon his: physical appearance, dress, “Bpeec
‘and. Rpobearias A he could be. described. asa. Mgwinger", ;
peettor.. qparty guys ‘ate. ‘His ‘conversation ‘touched

iughes Oil and: “Coal. ‘Company,’ 3134 ‘East 90th Street,
Chicago, . Ae business - that dates back to his. grandfather. . He
said that he took the ‘business. over - ‘several years ago, upo
-the death of his: father, -and built it into.a successful,
“ profitable. operation. ‘Most. of ‘his time is spent on outside |
Sales. work, .He spends very little time “inthe office. . He. has
a telephone in his auto and prefers to have. his office. gereen
the telephone calls before.giving them to him to answer. The.
ay=tonday internal operation of business is handled by his >.
stat “He believes: he. contri bytes. more “to. his. business


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by working on. the outside

we In. Hddi tion. to his coal. company, Mr, HUGIEES statod

he: has various’ other business. interests in Chicago, Florida
~ and other parts, “of. tha_ ‘United: ‘States. He is’ 4 partner. ‘ina
xpeal. estate. venture ‘in. the Ft. , Lauderdale, -Florida- “area.

. HUGHES said that he isa personal fr Mr
BR) -founder and. operator of the Playboy . Club ‘chai
d said that: for. a few years ‘in the early J060ie

or several years.” She. has refused. to give him a divorce. -
2 wife tives: Ain: Chicago | with the children of the- marriage
My . i . =i

and- it: is: na. -sacret ‘that he- ‘has been’ involved with: ‘a lot.:
af. women. over: a period of | years. | Mr..- HUGHES indicated. that
b attracted | to him. He admitted. being. a..

UGHES ‘claimed contacts. with a  pumber. of”
‘mportant people.: in ‘politics, ‘entertainment, -businesa;,
2 “sports and society. -He said he is a personal - friend
-  ontertainer, Frank ‘SINATRA... Mr,. HUGHES claimed. that
people. are always, calling’ on: ‘him for - eo tninee and_.b

. Mr. HUGHES said: that ‘between 3: 00. pom
_pam, on 18 “March: 4969, his: office received telephone . alls.
- (four) from a-'Mr. ROSE" ona. ''Mr. BARRON" calling for - :
[0 "Mr. ROSE". requesting. ‘that he come -to Room 551,,° Ambassador

-- Kast Hotel, for some urgent matter... On two of. ‘the: calls,: th
“caller identified himself: as°a CIA Representative. The aboye
> calls were. taken. by either: his Secretary. (Marilyn) ‘or. his”
1 office manager, (itr WARD) - :

SES 4, ‘After ‘the last call, Mr. HUGHES said he trie
call Agent. FAY at: the FBI, ‘but he was gone for the day.
‘Mr. HUGHES then called. Room 551, above hotel, and asked.
. My ROSE" what the matter was. all about? What was. BO.
-. “urgent? “Was “he ‘with the: Central Intelligence. Agency? ©
_-, Was be with the United States.Government? Mr. HUGHES. ‘paid
Mp. ROSE" avoided the point blank question of whether. he
- was with the Central Intel}igence Agency, "Mr. ROSE" | a
‘ parried the ‘direct question with the remark, "J said CIA".
Mr. HUGHES © turther related that "Mr. ROSE" wasn't going to 4
' he was representing the. Central Intelligence Agency. Thangs
Mr. WUGUIES told. Mr. ROSE" that the whole matter was So. ‘\\gs


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“suspicious. that. he: has. ‘turned it over to “the FBI. The conversa.
v, thon, was then concluded / ; bogs :

So “sy “Shortly. hereaf er, ‘according ‘to wr HUGHES ‘(also
*eontirmed: -by Mr FAY), a” ‘person who identified himself a
~ Gordon NEVILLE, NEVEL | OR: “NOVEL called the FBI Office. ‘and. s
he -yegistered | in. Room:.551 at ‘the. Ambassador East.:and tha!
was in Chicage on a. matter : ‘involving James GARRISON and:
jeeer action: Apa dnt. ‘Playboy Magazine for. defamation. of cha

_ a Mrs ‘HUGHES. ‘paid he has suspected all aione | ‘that.
the telephone calls. were either. ‘made by, or instigated by
one Gordon ‘NEVIL, NEVILLE or NOVEL (HUGHES professed only.

phonetic. spelling; however , Headquarters, ‘after an indices
ener -later.said that it was prone Gordon NOVEL , “who.

“Gordon NOVEL and. ‘it may. have | a. bearing: on ‘the recent: ‘events
ME HES Said that about three years ago, he met. one Abbeys
Ae ‘Native of Tennessee, who was then working ‘as- =
BUNNY) Ta—the- Playboy.Club in Chicago. “Abbey has also. ‘worked ©
at Playboy. Clubs’ in New Orleans, Cincinnati, London ‘and. other ©
places .* “A few. ‘years aga, Abbey. married NOVEL, “whon . she : ‘met
. An..New. Orleans. Since that’ time, .Abbey and NOVEL . have:..
“i made. their. home. ‘in the Columbus, Ohio area.’ They have-ha
« A Lot -af: ‘fights. ‘and arguments and. have: been separated. on.
: several ‘occasions, Abbey has filed for. a divorce.’ Presently.
_ Abbey is. living in Columbus" with ‘her parents, the. John
: I -

: HUGHES: further. related. that NOVEL ‘lives: b
wits: and: ais? not. ‘to. be. trusted; “that NOVEL. ‘engages in “Wprivate®
~ ov of t questionable practices; that he (NOVEL) - reportedly.
gues rooms and takes. photographs ,_ Or of ©
“And. that
ki ng.

y2 Mee” elated that -he thas | no romantic:
interests, such as. ‘marriage, with. Abbey and looks upon her. .
as’ a ‘good friend. -.Last summer , Mr. HUGHES ‘arranged for

Abbey to spend a. ‘few. weeks in’ ‘the: Ft. Lauderdale area.  Mr,-:

HUGHES.was there also. Mr. HUGHES said that he made: elaborat
precaytions to make sure-that. Abbey | couldn't be.-traced...
. directly. fram Columbus to Florida... He had Abbey fly Lo oe
~ Chicago and then catch another plane tq Florida. Somohow,
‘Mi, HUGHES further related, NOVEL found out about their. ip
to. Florida, _pecording to Abbey. — ;


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Bo. Tn - oonelusion, “Mr. “HUGHES. Said ‘that ‘NOVEL is a
very, very. shady character who is not. tocbe trusted. My.
~ HUGHES, has never. met NOVEL... ° ‘Based: upon what. che knows’ Abqut

“abh "eibtashie aes evel ‘Chicaga, ' from. 15 to-18 "March
7 - BOE inthe teeter from. ‘Apartment Cc, 10069. Puttington,

Cgorvdeg: Affton, s
ae the name. of: one oe

23. -.1n. January. 1968, BROZ was owner of. the Sportaway —
: Barber: “Shop ;: 1809 Pestologzi: Street, and his wife, a” oe
“Registered Nurse, was employed at. ‘Bethesda Hospital.. ‘Phe
cadditional. other addresses were. on record; January: 1966
1218. Tron: ‘Street ; 47. October 1962, 705. Brevits| Street;

ment and ‘the Sts Louis. tite gt, Lette, Cou s Office, both ~
/ covering Affton, _ Missouri, “were. searched and reflected ne
vdnforma tio i the. name, of Charles R. BROZ. =. a

ae 26. “The files af the: “Missouri State ‘Auto Registratio:
... Office, State- Headquarters, Jefferson, City,. Missouri,: — -
were. searched. by Clarence. RIPPETO , ‘Assistant Supervisor; and.
>. pefloc ted | no registration information. ‘in the name of Char les.
-- RY BROZ Lor’ the year 1969,. Index book records . indicated that.
/ one, ‘Charles Ry BROZ, ‘1218. ‘Iron Street, St, Louis, Missouri,
urchased. 9, 1966 Mercury on 31 January: 1966 and for the. years,


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-- Drive, Apartment..c., “Affton. ‘(Lakeshire) Street, St.” ‘Louis ,
“Migsour i -63123; has unlisted. telephone. ‘number - -638-1149.
.. : business. "connectian - is that .of.a partner with. one Ray CAMPBELL
> in the Arco Auto. Electric: Service, 1811 Pestolozzi ‘Street,
St: Louis, Missouri, “with telephone | PR aree1.

° ger and 1968, “was xegiatered with Missourd auto
.. AG A283 ¢ No-

- Division, St, Louis. County Police. "Department , obtained the :
following information froma reliable ‘confidential informant
“ Leampleyed. by the. County Division. of the Southwestern. Bell:

. eontained - 4 file on: the M. F,, Hughes O11 and Coal: “Company,
above. shown address. in Chicago, “Illinois. Thomas F, HUGHES
dee is, listed as President, .The-firm has 100. employees,"
aunet worth of $914, 000, ‘annual, sales of $3,000, 000 and was’...
“founded by the. ‘family. in- 1900... Thomas F. "HUGHES , Jr. is ‘also fen:
‘listed as. the- President of: Heidco Coal. ‘Company, . Inc.” Dun &:
Bradstreet, récords also show: that An. 1961, ‘he’ was

“were” checked

“acquainted: with: “Thomas - F.... HUGHES, Jr. furnished the following’
‘observations on HUGHES; . That HUGHES waa born and reared in’...

dsca ateady patron. of the Playboy Club and other night --"-
‘gpota.. - HUGHES is regarded as a "man about town" who enter=
“tains, frequently. around the night club circuit. . His tastes:

>. -that--HUGHES may. have: some effeminate mannerisms, but: nothing.

i. derogatory was known in that regard. The confidential. source

9 further. related. that: he ‘has always wondered about the source.
of HUGHES -maney. — HUGHES has various business investments ,

2 ane dad bing. BONO: ppar tment butldings and an Lnter@st in the.

Maryland etel, The wource pointed out that the Maryland” a

Hotel has niways been identified as having ownership jn the

- Chicago syndicate. The source speculated that HUGHES may be

.a front. man or have some support from the Syndicate; howeyer, -

ther. Anformation was. on. file,

“er, ‘Captain ‘Robert. E, WESSEL, Chie, “Intelligence:

‘Telephone Company; Charles R, -BROZ, residing at 10069 ° putting

No addi io

‘{nformation

“Records of t the: Dun ‘and Bradstreet. Office in Chica

residen

rf. New Orleans.

“the ‘criminal records of. ng Guten: Police ‘Depa:
in’ the: name of. Thomas F. HUGHES and there Ww

"cone taentia source, “who ‘ia ‘personajly

ae reliable,

the. South Shore. area of: Chicago; that HUGHES... inherited: the
family business, Hughes - Oil and Coal,.and has built it into.
a successful business; that. HUGHES seems to have an income —
sufficient to maintain a 30 foot. boat, patronize . the smart:
and: expensive restaurants: ‘and night clubs, live in an) |
expensive ‘apartment and.dress in. a’ stylish fashion; and

that: HUGHES has a: reputation for "liking the ladies" and |

are. éxpensive,.. The: confidential source further ‘related.

he: (confidential source) has never known HUGHES to be invalyed
in any Syndicate. operations or activities. :


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develop the varioug.leads in.Chicago, ‘Columbus , "New Orleans,
ete. An aecordgnce with Headquarters. instructions

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Tie "ageing :

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Gordon Duane NOVEL (fugitive witness in Garrison's probe of the

assassination of ‘President Kennedy) was born 2/7 38, New Orleans

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and - told the: Stites-Item .Noy-
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rithng: oxpert ays the Jetter
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» In-.Novel's | handwriting. |. :
Phe expert, Gilbert, Forficr of |:
New Orléans, :compared’ he.)
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eferences,” cade : names. and
“p-plea for pet Novel
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and printing. ;
“Itcts my conclusion
ha “same. person who -Avrote: |:
the” ibandwriting: : specimeny, i
also. wrote the daft to. Mey
“ Weisey Fortier ‘aaserted,.°
He raid he: checked. espe”
‘elally for: the’ possibility” the | ite '
ov etler might he ‘a farpvery but hit des sine
concluded t it‘ was anobs probke( award: of
° i : i i olvetnent, lai

PUG. LETTER: ‘appears’ lo.
to ‘drat. which, Tater, miftht
-yeenpiad or lyped,; There
vo <tndigntion At avis aver:
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ono knew Wheth--

pelt “hanse:
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awhether- Ay tH
cp WHEN Double Choaes 7
ae holding carporadan durluye t
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reeled with the CIA.

Novel © departed New. : Ors
“deans about’ mid-March after
op receiving 8. ‘subpena to' testi- |,
Arvestinative: squad iniseed itt “ty iy Garrison’s “Kennedy
hon they usearched | the, efleothy plot” investigation,” “He
1 left: town. _ sto’ McLean, Va., § ha | 2.

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‘time. My raply ev five q
Swan mepedive, oo.

Thi a ta “infor m;
you ». ‘that District (Attorney) 3
im” Garrison has subpenacd ¥ 2 Bupewu unaware ot Looble-
myself .and an ‘associate {o-’ ‘che k association hn: this thet
testify~before his Grand Jury’), tere our attorneys. and athe
con’ matters © which ray bg care in possdsuton of comple
‘Classified: TOP SECKET. - Acs sealed Filo. ciints ni scully in
Liong of Individualy connected.’ “formation concerning. cinttar
With .DOUNL CINE, COTE “Th event of our nudilan ae
“PORATION TT MamC Gy Urs partie, either” eeciderital a
teurtie ot lua sithorwisay they ‘nig inalrneled
(Tie "author book! te sinuttangonaly érelennni

: and. Gifleers tront “Gant sis Onis:

seroma sflar Nove S

WE was ‘MET. thora- by ’a
former officlal of ‘tha Justies |
“Yeparlnonte wha now , works:
for one of the ral television
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Hiatt ecleniihy, dind 1.
Hen.
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7 hor boy “friend. Hos “i he: Bieyear- wold Tornie Tl ae
; . : 190 Invisible Government same) for parille
tin uy showed. i to hig profes: awner took a ie detector teat i: . AC! C sent
“gar aba Now Or lean Univer: © af MeLean and ducked anders | dc ena hel Corp aa differs " (areas
am ‘eily.+ : B vover ‘for another few days," SeApphot RIATE, :

The prof ris a friend of a time when he was reported | aelion relative ‘to Carri:

. to be ‘in Montreal. i0 ; - -jnquisilion concerning us may,
THE LETTER at Gahanna, aD. aC san i\vases) peas OG hat be handled. throwgh mils |
iy bets “4 . c oa i
‘eesed fo a Mr. 4 _ bus suburb where he was ar- — Skallis - Wry Bea. Coa ‘Garvison ‘3
“prabatbly Weng" W rested April 1 on a warrant’ aa Lato. _ press sutly colonit- igiaud.
~danuary or carly. from Garrison” who charged. | >. se + Army Nations! Guat
this, yore, jue Ain with. cantiplracy to: burs |" peady reservarst
i drajivensja, Ih EL plorla h nunittons , Al up ‘nt ; : ine tiny be had thraty
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7 cntet,/ Security Research state /os ee

GucAS, Chris = #08. 3909%
-(OARRISON Tavertigation)

“The attached “eumiary on’. ubject - was. 5 prepared for . ox/nta per. their’

cequeat of 28 June. 1968. Because of its contenta, it may be of interest |
_. to the D/OS. ‘These undesirables all seem to make each other"! 8 s acquaintance
in seme: BY or other. - ae a ge,

Sarah. K. Hall
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sur “Gua, chee an

ah anguet 1968

Bubject in identified as e California investigator who administered =

"7 oS a polygraph test to Rager. Eugene BRADLEY who hes been charged with conspiracy. -
a “by GARRISON. =

Eub ject wes born 42 August 1902 at ‘Omaha, Rebreska. He: “he 5 former
Agency. employee who EOD in October 1949 as a GS-9 Intelligence Officer.

— Bub ject réaigmed his steff status in February 1951 and became a staff ;
_* agent with Pro ject/ ENDOMORPE in Turkey from March 1951 until July 1952. .
. (His wife Anne Claudia GUGAS nee SETARO was granted a covert security clearance —

” ‘gouree of constant embarrasement-in h

in February 1952" for use in a clerical capacity. in the Middle East.)

- i
. In his asolenment with Project Gqoonrd sn Turkey, Sub ject wae @

© contecte with Turkish: (Bolica] a
officials. He was boastful, indiscreet, lacking in sound judguent, knew

Little or nothing in the fields in which he wee eelf-professedly an expert

and vee. guilty of security breaches in failing to maintain his cover.

ncident be made recommendations of police reorganizations to be

7 “made by” -province governors in Turkey} whereas, in Turkey, the‘ olice) 54
Department i4a.4 national organization end not subject to the dictates of

o “pachine and. claimed he had two years" experience with the Los Angeles -

Tur

the . province. governors. This. caused much’ in) will. end friction with the
police. -

Subject professed to be an expert in his knowledge of the, polygraph. _

pr eee ti ee

Police Department prior to hia employment with the Agency. However, it

- vee developed that instead of this claimed experience, he had actually

are type. of. technical equipment and this conversation led to the disclosure
he was teaching lie detectian techniques to foreign police departments
“without being authorized or competent to do so. Subject was briefed in
' December 1952. with stress placed on the importance of living up to his

_ the covert interests ‘of the Agency. . f

. again becene involved in en incident of official -enbarressment to the Agency.

spent one or tvo weeks in 6. astective school connected with. the Los Angeles

: “ -Poltee Departzent vhere he received below average grades.

“In October 1952 he appreached an Agency employee regarding a nev

ub ject that he was employed by the Agency in 4 cevert capacity; that.

security responsibilities and exercising utmost precaution in protecting

In spite ‘of the strong varnings given him in this interview, Subject

,

downgrading andl

satire
Eschiied from automattt
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| In Mareb 1953 3 he mnterepresented 1 himself asa 4 polygragh opereter 1 with the »
- “State. Department Secret Police”. This misrepresentation wes made at ©

. machine and Congressiomal: legislation was: pending at the time regerding —
such authorization. _ AS. result of this misrepresentation,: Subject waa |

_efforded. another security interview in March 1953. He explained that
_.. his cover company sold equipment to foreign . countries through: the Mutual .

: : emotionally. unstable, : possessed of a need to build himself up in the
: . Information as to his past positions. His intelligence quotient was found
wo In April. 1953 termination of his employment was recommended.

-. @6 Leonard HARRELSON. _ Subject,. who was then Director of Public Safety

for. the | City of Omaha, Nebraska, was one of the group and it was believed - ;
-. that he was responsible for supplying the classified information to HARRELSOW
. bout [ENDOMORPH Jactivities. wa a

and the use of the polygraph machine. In.1964 he wes employed by the Keeler

_ Polygraph. Company in Chicago;. Illinots. In 1954 HARRELSON wea in pertnerehip ut
oy with: Lioyd B. FURR in «a private detective agency known es the Ane Cee AR
- Bureau of Investigation, Tower Building, Washington, D. C. Lloyd B.

~~ “rank higher than he possessed. In his business partnership with FURR, a
'. HARRELSON would misrepresent himself as being with the FBI by covering the
“word “Americen” when presenting hie credentials and Just shoving.’ “Bureau

- disapproved for Agency employment in 1951 because of falsification of his PIS,
: ane quests onable maturity, Judgment, discretion and honesty. ;

- ‘Bubject denied thot he ever represented himself as a State Department
polygraph operator. After the security interview Subject was. also. -eeseseed |

Washington climate te not agreeable | to his fomily."

and Robbing, Skokie, Illinois, informed the Agency he had been a witness

88 being given at “MeLesn,,. Va." in March 1967. ‘(Sumery on FURR attached).

_@ medical discharge from the Army as a psychoneurotic in 1949 and. ‘had been

time when the Department of Stéte was not suthorized to have a polygraph

A14 Program and ‘supplied consultant services to the State Department but

by on Agency psychologiet: (March 1953) end:was found to be egotistical,
eyes of others ond gave either exaggerated or completely erroneous
to be comparatively low in relation to those of other: Agency employees.

Subject renigned 29 April 1953 “te accept a position | in California.

Tm April 1964 | Mr. J. Kirk BAREFOOT, Director of Security, McKesson :

to unauthorized disclosures of classified information made by a group in
a cocktail. lomge in Omaha, Nebraske. Tha individual making the disclosures .
about. (EXDOMORPH Jactivities abroad under Agency sponsorship was identified

Leonard HARRELSON ipa private investigator specializing in “hymotien,

ia the polygraph | operator who gave a lie detector test to Gordon on
hostile witness subpoenaed by GARRISON. . The test received newopaper publicity

| -RARRELSON is ‘believed to be a a person of poor morals. He ‘was given e

court-martialed' twice for impersonating non-commissioned officers of a -

of Inve otigatian" ‘e

Incidentelly, the informait; J. Kirk BAREFOOT mentioned above » was

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SOVEL, already a fugitive witnesa inthe »
aS) ings ir Yr} is. reported in the Washington press of 27
a. havirig been: polygraphed the previous day on the
westigation by Garrison, According to the pres
Vil: submitted to a polygraph exainination |:
MejJean, Virginia by Lloyd FURR, In. stitements
. £RR tndieated there wae no Indication of :
oNOVIL' a Charges that Garrtaon'a cane ia a.

vk Lloyd VUES. gd feriner. District of Columbia policeman and now, o ~
a. privates date cthve, is a.self-proclatmed polygraph "axpert"
‘and: Eun device specialist, He has received publicity in the -
 pmet fav F tonting | sound devices for the late Fulton Lewis, . Jr. ae ee
San the of. arya county vice case in 1953 and in 1958 when ho
o Abyeovsred Mate: aing sgavices being used ‘Againat Bernard Goldfine.
Co tn rere arithoon wan received that a Washington, 1. , Pa,
, , operated by FURR and Tichard lL. BAST) was 0
vaM clectronte oquipment ty Conimunist Ghina via
: 8 ATSD had unclassified contact with ,

“Watoen

NOnBs

pereeesceae

Kicaaei ha aST, a “Washington, D. Cc. private detective, “gaine. 4
“note rtery ia 1965 ly turning up a rmiseing witness, proviously ~

‘ualoa abe: i hy the Departrirent of Justice, in connectlun with tho no
oo 1 Lobby lakercase.” Hele known to operate at leaat four: we
a ce ‘ente. ry bhaen: an) CAPY TAL BUREAU OF INVES STIGA’ CaM, wa oo
ee “Erie Ate Netective agency; 2) REDEX VIETNAM, INC., a ftrin
oW ini parte” a variety of cornmodities ranging: from liquor to -
Baht: Slee (nto South Vietnam, including, of late, U.S. =re crulted

_ ‘woes rirks for a Sabgon nightclub he ts planning; 3) REDE,
re waa _ a diens which selle almoat anything to anybody abroad,
, Sather tira f oe Vietnan; and 4). CONSOLIDATE L ARMAMENTS

HCl os trie which eels wall arma to, foreign governments et
yrdvate aividgualy abroad. GAST sluo produces anil dletritutcs
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he ctl ve: Nox planting a Frernote~ controlled Lemb jn the ©
ivetora of the lintt! Secret Poles, and haa boon roportod._
vir widertaken eioilar: extreme asalgnments for. exila
Peon, Damith and the Dominican Republic, (Banged. on
ry information on file,. DCS, in March’ 1967. “deci

Xs 8 and | WAKiam we TURNER, of RA? MPARTS

fae pe cravided information that during January 1967,.
Mass We TURNER, who identified himself aa a {ree- lante 7
‘cx, wloited tha offices of the Asia Foundation, requontiny
mation fora magazine article. lle stated that he had.
cn isin) by Col Stern of New York to gathor information for
/ artic lein the New York _Times.: During his visit, howuver, -
: atvious that TURNER was primed to-ask questiona _
Hnancing of the foundation, rather than, its actual:
ox notivittes., When TURNER concluded the interview
ing card with the firm name “REDE a= PACLE 1”
he had to have new cards printed, TURME R,
FBI in 1961, “As noted fo. have a

i tei ney Ye tte. oe performed by bhi while with eat af BL
: oie be Slairned to represent, is asoletant oe

Cte ber raring, han attempted to detail the contact of NOV?
a witty r’boG, FUR’ s connection with BAST, and.a posalh a.
oe oye nd pea between HAST's organization and RAMTARTS.
Juwing Inclentea the only CLA involvement Ia the ‘Ghain _
ran he exploited in subsequent attempts to > Link MUA
aNd wine in queotion, ) ; ‘ oe

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the My BAST that the following week BA AST sould Ube

noted: ; ‘Raymond :
' wives appearance ‘of thinking. well of Ric bard
L he scording to CASSAGNOL,: hie brother, Jacques,.
ats Nore R RAST and-reapects him. Thue BAST, in apite of:
YaOr val shottcominge from the intclliigance “atandpotat; © ae
son an established channel to at least one’ segment ©. _
{ oppo ation to Duvalier.. Since according to his >"
Wa ntntis mk, 5ST ia supplying. armas to CASSAGNOL'a = 007!
7 ata, fe ther tranecettone of this type via BAST presumably
: weit, vot Ge. dU eule, to arrange." He also provided mctetailed
Akdon on Ww hat he learned of BAST, noting that BAST had
need Dor: Anican distrust of State and AID anc the: fact that
wae a rossed them" (the Dominicans). a

Nofor: vy

a At rps report: on os AST dated 19 June 1963 reports ‘that ema
“Es Sarvice Keserve Officer, USDS" (hia cover) ha
9 Magy 1953 his attendance at dinner at BAST's- thor teed ae
m1 19633 Cwenjtold of his meeting with CASSAGNOL,
stontion to sell arma to the Dominican F PMHTVE™: as
wes, ete. lea alao. reports that on 7 May 1969 eS
(to perfor sore translation work: ¢ The tranalation, a
salated to VAST giving | a power of attorney, taonna |)
: 2 Martinez of the Dominican Kepublic to prepare |
cathan for legal establishment of REDDER CORPORA TION, |
oo branch of BAST*s firm. According to (wen 5 ..
stock was to be held by the head of the OF Nation ry oa
\wency, the head of the DR secret police, and an:
i} well: connected with Dominican Republic police and.
sonca nvospe, RAST ia aleo noted to have tol(Ow en}
lfer, VA! iT bad made ta > bug” the office of the Ve milnic an

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Washington Field Office
21 February-1968 ——. :

_ MEMORANDUM FOR: . HDQS

SUBJECT oy "(Information concerniag New Orleans ‘probe--
: : Kennedy assassination) © MOUEL, Oo de

1. Please, refer. to. Previous news ‘items on this topic. |

_ 2. Enclosed are ‘news : items ‘of possible interest. concerning -
recent developments. a

- a NOBLE, Jr.
“Ss Social Agent ‘in “Charge

Attachments: New. Orleans Topic. Clippings,
dated:17 February 1968. os

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- ‘[eciss 5. Dasolass F ren!

The forsher . chief investigator in the New Orleans
assassination. “plot” testified last-week. that District
Attorney Jim Garrison’ 8 + conspiracy theory § isa “baste \.
less frayd.” a

who worked with Garrison .
for probing the Kennedy assassina-
tion, swore that the. entire “‘plot’’ was a figment of
the D.A.'s imagination... ‘He testified”in an Ohio’:
extradiction hearing in which Garrison sought the |)

: return for testimony of Gordon Novel, 9 former New’): 5

_ Orleans resident, Gurvich also paidthay

 @ Garrison -once predicted ‘the assassination probe *
» Would end. with the suicide of his chief Acfendant,
“Clay, Shaw, who is charged with sonspi . ;

oa “(Another defendant, Edgar ‘Eugene Bradle)

been confused by Garris jr
Bradicy, an anti-Castra pilat, But ‘Gurvich "said ine
vestigation indicated that neither Bradley played any ms

~ part in the assassination, | cat Lh,

{ te Garrison. once ordered Gurvich to arrest, hand>
_-t, euff and assault two NBC newsmen, Walter Sheridan '
and Richatd Townley, who. had expressed skepticism fo
of the Garrison. n probe. 2: oe
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~— Return fo
-  . * "Gordon No vol, long-sought
- 1...) avitness “In tho ‘Kennedy assas.} -
yt . Sination probe, says he will ree}: -
a turn to New Orleans,. - { 7
_ Novel, ; former a nightclub :
“owner, left the city: abruptly!
“Tast year when District Attor- i
ney Jim. Garrison sought | to
question him. But he said yes:
terday in. Columbus, Ohio, he
is ‘tired of fighting” and will|:
. appear before the grand jury:
here. March 7 and 8.2. °°!

HOWEVER, Novel ‘said hz; -
knows nothing he can tell thel,
 juryin connection with Garri- |
son’s allegation that the slay-.|
ing of President John FP, ‘Ken-|:
; nedy was jotted in New Or,
o deans
~ “I think ‘it’s. time: to’ bring
: this to a. head,..1. want to have.
- la home and raise a family,”|:
Navel said ata news ¢onfer.[:

: _ Garrison contends Noyel and {-
Kerry Thornley,’ the former
French Quarter waiter charged:
yesterday with perjury, . both
were connected with the fed-]:
_ eral government here before the
assassination. Novel, Garrison
has claimed, -worked for the
Central Intelligence Agency,
Thornley; Garrison said yes-
- terday, was “part of the covert}:
'.federal operation operating in

a

TE

:with Lee. Harvey Oswald, |!

::Thorniey's one-time Marin el:
... Corps buddy. -

Tho perjury charge grew out

- . of Thornley’s ‘statements that

he never saw Oswald here dur-

: ing 1963, mo ;

* quoted as saying ‘‘the next U.S.

Will also be slain, oe

-ing Kennedy wag killed by'“elee| -

~ organization then tried to cast) .
:euSpicton on others,

; @ murder ig standard proce-!
~ dure with the CIA,” Garrison ;
was quoted as saying, | vs

; Duteh interview as saying that] .
* he had to speak out in Europe! ..: -.-

: “because it is impossible in|. ,
; America. Lo ;

; the truth, They throttled.us,"[ ©.
: he was quoted in the broadcast! ~

“New Orleans” in .1963, along|: °

1 were favorabla to. tha CIA,. +

GARRISON contends that
persons associated with the CLA
killed the: President. :
Tn. an interview made public}.
yesterday. in which Garrison]:
was questioned by a Dutch tela-
vision’ reporter, the DA was!

President. who tries to put the; —
brakes on the. war machine":

Garrison was quoted on The: 2°. |.
Netherlands Television Foundg-!. -:
tion by Willem Oltmans:ag say-! -

ments" of the CIA and the)

§ manner. of organizing |

GARRISON was quoted in the

“The U.S. press is controlled/ °°.
to such an extent by the CIAL ~~
that we no- Jonger can say! —

on the program ‘Panoramiek.’"y : >

The _ television foundationt - —
quoted Garrison as: saying he{ ~
assumed President Lyndon B.
Johnson knew of the. CIA's al-
leged involycment because the
Warren Commission was com-:|
prised of persons Garrison said

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“Gordon Novel has intorsig-7
: tion on gun-running activities‘:
rte ann] Rar Sm, ote ya |
‘the probe of the ‘assassination of * the document said, a
“ “ie sr) SH) The documient said it was is- |f
‘Sued for the purpose of being -of.3, hn
- presented to a judge in New -{j
York, “‘vhere said Allen -W, " accepted is the
Dulles. now is, upon proceed. /}
ings to compel said Allen W,
Dulles: to attend and testi-
fy . ” .

Both the Dulles and Novel

Dulles was never called be. |}

Previous efforts to
“get Novel ‘back to. New Orleans. to’ testify -have been un-.
’ Successful. ; a we

Slayer OF Lee’
Harvey: Oswahd,"" the-..docu-
‘Ment says, : Ts

IT SAYS* Steven Plotkin,
“Novel’s Attorney, when-press.
‘ed for ‘information Telatiy. tof -
the Eun-running activities as. {i ..
serted the attorney-client priv.
i ilege and Named «Gordon |.
Novel as the client-involved, =f .”-
~The. document Tequests that +
Novel be taken into imme--
diate custody and. delivered to.
:4N officer of.the State of Loui.
Siana to assure his attend.
“ance, ae Pe
“It. says - Novel . Was sub."

>. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. JIM GARRISON said his’ office.
"has succeeded in identifying’ the assassination of ‘President
Kennedy as an operation conducted by elements of the”
CIA," and said both ‘Dulles and” Novel’ were Needed t
testify about CIA ‘activities, weet ao.
- > Both subpenas were issued ‘thro igh. Criminal: Distric
Judge’ Matthew 8. Braniff; 2 22 i

S~ ‘The réquest for the D

Subpena requests Contain pro.
+ visions granting the men im-
munity from. arrest and
process service, while in Lou-
isiana on ‘Matters which arose
prior to ‘their entrance. into
- the state: to’ answer’ the sub-
:{f-Pemas,. - -

_ INTHE Past, Garrison has

les subpena ‘alleges ‘that Dull

- é 7 : “i ept. 27, 1961, and as’ such: “would: .
shave, pertinent knowledge as to Substantial “reports that 31
| Lee “Harvey: Oswald.was An -agent and-or an “employe: of -,

4] US ‘own admission -in public [| b
)) statenients is affiliated with

the CIA.” - Soo . “ Hy
"It further alleges that Novel {1b
“has been : established to: be [~
i] a. frequent. visitor. of and ase fh.
1 e@ of attorney Dean: ‘A; ' |!

ization negoti ith a New. Orleans firm for the’ purchase

fr at and vehicles to’ use in the: CIA-sponsoréd’ Bay. 0

~ - fPigs invasion of Cuba and used=the name -Of ‘Lee, Harvey

| _ ?0swald, who. was at that time in ‘Russia.’ «= Ras

' |. &:. THE SUBPENA REQUEST QUOTED a Copyrighted story:
-- #i. the Siates-Item April 25,- 1967, as. making Public -Novel’s ch

' felaim to have teen employed by: the CIA during: Dulles’ : {jf
~ pletture’.as” chief. “Gordon - Noval fled “the? state “to ay,

tive to the conspiracy: to mur. |}
der John FP. Kennedy." ip

oe » ALSO, IT says he- was an’|
‘Bssociate of Ferrie in connec.
tion with CIA activities, .

i and sought -to enlist the aid. of “the CIA
| &Wenting his Teturn,” ‘the document -said.. po ats F |
‘E- The request said.“‘David W. Ferrie’ who has been named:

: in an indictment AS 4 conspirator to, the ‘murder; of: John Fr:

_ + Kennedy, Wagan’ éiiploye: of the CIA at atime When: Allen‘!

ans Parish as

’ #4 Conspirator in the Kennedy

+ slaying, — eee
ie Novel, the request: says, has

| been identified by various wit.

!] Nesses as having been in vari- |

“| Us places in. Dallas ‘in 1963 i

} Which are under. investigation. !

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fon.
to New Orleans.” -~"~ 4
. Garrison, in a statement ace
companying the subpenas, ;
said. Dulles was head of the
CIA when its present tech-
niques’ were developed. _
“These techniques, although’
it is not generally known, have’
included the covert: penetra
. tion of much of the fabric of
American’ Jife — including’
schools, . organizations _ of’
many. types, news agencies

ra a oes : { he knew had’
ree -. {not served’? +. . .
: ss ETE says Novel: was charged
. : ! asa material Witness and a.

i warrant isstied for his arrest,
sand goeson: =

‘a issued but

“SUBSEQUENT to the is-
-Suance' of the warrant, Gordon.
Novel disguised himself in the’
“clothing “of a member of a

! particular religious. order and and-even churches,” Garrison |
t. ‘an}i } tiveness re--| Said, a
Py meal ; re ee The. DA said. witnesses fa-
arned io the ‘stale o .| Mmiliar’ with: the’ CIA's opera-
‘Slana and. removed his auto- ‘tions in a “geographical cor-
Poe mg. tent to his beget "from California through
re eo j, ‘Subsequent to his having ‘Texas and Louisiana, east.
we . {fled Louisiana, Gordon Novel | 7 . b.
te b " : ward to Florida are particu-
"+ Hfraveled in secret to various larly important because “this
; Places . the U.S in the ona, {office has. succeeded in iden- |i
p pany of a a ned whe aid. ‘fifying the assassination of {bo
I equa news medium. who aid President ‘Kennedy as‘ an op- |
;.ed' and, abetted. Novel in his. ‘eration conducted by ele-
} Sought ° the. iid: eee ; ne :
‘mental. agencies, particularly. HE SAID virtually’ every
fhe CIA, to prevent his retury: ‘key witness, defendant and.
; potential defendant in-the case |I §
has-turned out to be original-
Yly from that “geographic
: Strip.” ae
Garrison said ‘the Warren:
. mmission was formed to
| ‘conceal. the involvement of. :
the CIA in the assassination,”
The appacion members, he’
‘said, “appear » have’ -par-
ticipated in ‘this ‘tableau: on
the ground that ‘national’ se-;
_| ‘curity’. would bé jeopardized
‘| if the truth were known by:
.the people of this country.” -
.|'/ Other evidence which pos: fz
. {-Sibly “would have led to dis- |
-{.covery of CIA involvement, :
Garrison. Said “was simply |
. destroyed outright or never
. {Teported—such as the finding .
; of bullets in Dealey. Plaza. |
immediately after the. assas-«
‘Sination.” :

;..SOME CIA employés, ‘he

aid, were “accidentally” ara

. "rested at.the scene and later f+
[released “without undue ‘ate:

-tention.”. He. said his. office [

i has now identified the CIA |

| employes involved and “is en- |

| gaged in constructing cases |

; ; | against’ thent.” err

Coo ooo : my ; | "He concluded: : |

. . . : 1

. “This office intends to dem-

“; onstrate . . . that the CIA; . ,

made a mistake in using’ Or- H
y Jeans Parish as a staging‘!

. ; area for the assassination and .

. ‘ that the federal government -

XD . - ; ; i has made an equally bad mis- ; ‘
} .. "; take in attempting to conceal |

%6 FEB 1968 this fact and in attempting |

‘ . ' to obstruct justice in Orleans’

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I ~

7 yur). Tala tnekaret eriad to pits ceetanes te NOTEn a fnitiah
Saleen, a. ‘he wae working for GIA bactune of the Agency*s propinity to
9» VEe ;

Atter NOVEL vacated hip ‘New Orleuns:apartnent in Merch 1967

a letter written by himwas found ander the Lingleut on a sink
_ @rainboerd by ‘the new tenant, a gixl who turned it over to her boy
friend, who. give it to @ professor at a New Orleans wmiversaity who tn
_ turn gave it to a reporter on the New.Orleans STATES+ITEN, Hoke MAY.


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Hoke “MAY. was granted 4 dovert ‘pecuraty Approval in April 1958

for unwitting use by Project FIINDULGE... MAY was not to be: ainestiy:
employed by FJINDULGE but waa to be: used in comection with his:
position with a prévate fim which handled work for the Praject..

The letter wes presumably written to a "Me, WETSS" in CTA ond referred.
te classified DOUBLE-CHEK activities in 1961 in which NOVEL claimed
he was 4uvolveds This matter ves Ferriewed rs y oat at the time the.

vas rented uy the Aghnay for the ole. e
the Sidious of huericta f | partis

Denocratico, an Agency created anf A supported ‘enti-Castro elucionerds
Although ARCACHA-SMITH had no Agency clearance, NOVEL could bave gained
. an impression from him thet he wis employed by by OIA
____ In October. 2967 NOVEL use “granted. 4: monty
the Houma Bunker burglery ona & vetur

testify before the East Baten Rouge Farieh met
ey serine ans labor troubles: a the State of Lou istana.

- - € Agsney bed ne coonecthin vite the Roma Munitions Huiker.
However, sn. Agency SeaDinee site wes Located at Belle Chasse, louisiana
and Colonel. Thoms Busta of ting of Amey efP int tt, w

labor  probere

SORBANE hy thete 18 ‘that every yBowtataon . i
sheritt ‘wes  mBtkted to relean me" “eabling end other ‘viee in Loutes i aoe

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he New ‘Orleans States-Item, The. ~The defense will be: Taid’ down, Novel | says, if

© Dorp. and The: Payton: ‘(Oble); “he is ‘returned to New’ Orleans to face accusations
: that he burglarized an oil Service company’s muni-
‘tions bunker: in nearby Terrebonne Parish. *

‘NO ELS ATTORNEY AT ‘NEW ORLEANS eg
lotkin, } rould not deny his client’ 's Teported 4

cag tentacles of the Central Thtel-
» Teaci. deep into Dist.. Atty. Jim
ho, “lary wanedy dy ath plot investigation?
i ® There is mounting evicence they: do, nd: at-
7 least one Garrison probe figure intends'to ise CI
onnections as part of his defense.

Stree aerate Mem PRET | rat ant ae mated neem oven sagmtnn eats

“J will neither confirm nor deny them? ” Plotkin :

said.

Novel is free -in ‘Columbus’ on ‘gio, 000 bon
_Wwas arrested April. 1 in suburban Gahann
on Garrison’s

: pertinence
Sipe *

: tions burglary i in 1961
'  Heisaccusedj
:{ both-of conspiracy and 3; a

" ganization in New Or- ,
r: leans. Garrison charg- ‘3 :
‘1 es they conspired with:#

“fanother ‘key’. JFK

Tie ae the ¥ ¢
GROSS FOS and 3

expert, he
$ s he was a CIA operative and will: use:

; mer airline, pilot who died ° “of ‘what: the “Orleans -
Parish coroner called “natural “causes” five days.

Con +, ued

UE, Cok


aR Ea Tae erat a nome ae

stew vsiwalls UA Said Serie :
tory’s- most important-men."".

spin
'. prosecutor has called Novel “a veryimportant wit-

ness” and has’ filed a material. witness warrant .
against Wings. 0 met
Novel

7

s io be one. of history’s most

oa: the‘man who wants him to do
aINg vetore a Stand jury. He repeatedly has
s4. Garrison's ‘investigation-a “fraud” - and a
ction.” Dos OS

Novel called the munitions incident
aast patriotic burglary in history” during a
"at news: interview... He.
shushed by his Cciumbus lawyer, Jerry Weiner,

Even:

> I

ined story carried by The Dayton’ Daily
ly he. said, “I-think Garrison will. e

“sed empty as a CIA-Staging point for munitions destined
' to be used as nart of the: abortive Bay of Pigs attack on
. Castro's Cuba in April, 1961: ee Des
_ -PRIOR TO THAT BYSASTROUS CIA-staged operation,
Novel says, he -as weifing for the intelligence service at,
‘New Orleans. :art of /23 job: he contends, was to operate
the @vergreen avectifing: agaicyna
* “munications, ; Se , o
Pie: Nini by the CIA, Novel says he
mercials used ‘on 300 stations
3. “Their cryptographic messages, he

; in the US..a
claims, were

alert

‘and the key alert code names were
and “Holiday Trees." In late 1960,
time was placed by the agency. .

- On the day the munitions were.
- was called by his CIA contact and told to join a
was ordered to transport, munitions from the bunker to New

ee

* Orleans, ‘The key to the: bunker, he says; was provided,
_HE SAYS HE MADE TRE TRIP in his own automobile,

Lincoln, and met several people there — all of them al--.

“ingedly acting for the.CIA. He identifies them as Ferrie,
Arcacha, several Cubans, and another figure in the case.
’ They loaded the bevss of ordnance on trucks, he con-

rts — Ferrie’s home, Novel’s office

‘office. of a stor! ormer’.FBI agent and
ice. oivicial, GuyBanistey who died of a
AS i ner oF Jog, wb at

* “one of his.) reliable, told a reporter {

boxes of munitions in Baiuster’s. Lafayette. st. office early |

|

The charges against Novel and.-Arcacha. are *
offs: from Garrison's main investigation. The .

ives, has carried on’a running long. . ¢

; -. eventually were taken by boat

-.. Pigs attack. :
: “*. Cuban sources in New Orleans Say the cadre of Cubans:

-: “sent to Varacoa. to make a diversionary assault. The at-
immediately was~:.

cre recently, Novel restated his charges against °:

tions in Louisiana.” He did not elaborate. .
; ated but. unpublished account of how. the :
28 disappeared ‘describes the. bunker he says he |

§ a front-for CIA com- *

avetits:to the invasion date, The com- '

mercials adve-iised aluminum ‘Christmas. trees, he says,
“Star Christmas Trees’
$72,000 worth of radio.
picked up, he says; he .
group which * ;

w Orleans where the explosives :°

i 1 fk sees UL Wate, 5°

-ew Orleans hé saw 50 to 100.
in 1961.0 or, - oe OL
.. Banister was a private detective then, operating a com...
pany called Guy Banister Associates. His friend said he
saw ‘he munitions in ‘a stereroom-office, in -boxes -marked
with the name “Schlumberger.” “. te i E
_ HE SAYS FIVE OR SIX OF THE BOXES were open.’
Inside, he says, were rifle grenades, land mines and
“little missiles” of a kind he had never seen before. 3
: The friend said he remonstrated with Banister because

‘fooling with this’ kind of ‘Stuff

could get you.in trouble,
He added: ° 7
“Banister said no, it was all right, that he had

from somebody He

approval |

. , a bunch of fellows connected with the Cuban deal asked to.
v Ieave it there overnight.” oe

Banister’s friend said this happened well, before the. "|

April Bay of Pigs invasion. _ ;

_ The munitions, Novel says,
Solidated soon after the New Orleans drops. He says they
to Cuba for use in a diver-.°
" sionary operation staged in conjunction with the Bay of .

; , trained by the CIA on the city's West Bank in. 1961 was

: -tack did not. come off because. Castro: militia: was - waiting. -
‘and took’ the ‘group prisoner. . ; —G
: NOVEL’S ACCOUNT OF THE explosives caper sharply:
’* conflicts: with Garrison’s charges: against Arcacha and -
; Novel. The DA’s accusation ‘says the burglary took place °
‘after Aug. 1, 1961—three months after. the Cuban disaster.
: - . The’ DA accuses the two men of conspiring to burglarize
a bunker at an abandoned military base at Houma. Car-.
rison’s_bill of informatiof' says the bunker was leased by. -
Co. of Houston, ae
_. Sch te they Know nothing of any’.
CIA operations in conneetion with their magazine, where’,
oil field service equipment and certain low yield explosives |
sare stored, = Ht . ae
‘ ‘As to the date the Houma burglary happened, no one °
, Seems to know or will say exactly ‘when it téok place. *
; Schlumberge
their reconfs_are1
;WWilmore“Broussard, will not reveal the date he ‘charges:
Novel burglarized the Houma bunker. He said:
material evidence” ‘in his case, ce ;
.  BLOTKIN SAYS HE’MADE A TRIP
the date of. his client’s alleged offense and could Rot. ob-::
‘tain it, ee oy rn
Shaw, a tall white-haired retired New Orleans business-. |
man,. who stoutly- denies participating in a plot to kill
“Kennedy, was managing director. of the International Trade:
. Mart, He was with the ‘organization for 19 years and in a’.
1 ‘favorable Position to observe the movements of international
| ‘commerce through Amofica’s
|” On March 4CPaeé
; “Rome, carried ‘a sto

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ings; claimed the com- ‘}
_. 7, | It said-the company moved. its operations from Switzer- |
: land to Rome and has since transferred its offices to Johan- :
‘, Desburg, South Africa, where ‘it is still in existence, ©: .

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said the stuff would just be there over-.; |
night, that somebody was Supposed to pick it up. He said.”.{

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" agrind. dway. between governors’ ‘offices at Baton Rouge: ‘and
; ;Columbus.. ; ia
1 yer. He ‘lives-in-a rent free apartment, dtives a: “used: car:
| Swith dealer's: tags and. continues’ to- promise he will bend
, Garrison down ‘the drain”, when what he’ Says, is. the full,

7 Novel Not CIA. Agent--Weiner. F

“The ‘Columbus, ‘ Ohio, attorney for Kennedy death plot. r
| vestigation figure ‘Gordon Novel said todey that, >

: e CIA.

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‘General. Counsel haa informed GI/R&A thas in fact Double, Chek wae |
‘Greated after the deatha of the sy fs for the sole purppse of making

a £9 their widews, a

@: Fer memorandum DBR 76600, 29 March 1967, reported.

‘another long: distance cell by NOVEL te the New Orleana office, NOVEL _ es
” ald that Walter DAN, who {a a Washington NBC news reporter, 2°2'F§,
VA >: had the.nurnber of the telephone at which NOVEL could be reached, He
“2 alee aaid that when he waa given the polygraph test in Virginia, — -
-:. SHERIDAN wae present, He added that he had ven SHERIDAN Informa
Pdi about polygraph testa run YY ARRISON ~

9. An § May 1967 memorandum fromthe Associate General’
Counsel states that he wae given information about the GARRISON ine -¢
eatigation. by & Washington lawyer named Jack Miller, that Walter . -

HERIDAN wae the source of Miller's information, that NBG hae done
y minute show on GARRISON, and that it plans an hour-long show
low. weake from paws : apa ted te "bury" GARRISON.

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. remarked that GARRISON plans to subpoena an attorney,

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“meas in smgparz ef bi, ar rime ie Hua eed can chandler to answen,(error.’ ; ” «SN /
atm | 2 ‘Jeans |, should “claim “the sty 82Ve- the: district attorney, three}; -In a Telated issue, East Ba i
Aa, former. ‘4 mend, ent: just ag a. omthon'“4¥8 after that to file & relarnjRouge Parish District Attorney,
‘Ea Kux Ker leader Jules Kin Meal eeaSt. 88 common gape flee that to fe a ie a
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tat about +70 -~™ Wednes-; cand ;

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Ut chatéed Garrison’ wants served as the governor's office

GRANTED STAY in

Chandler “trom _ purstting™ his
jury Appearance m. Chandler duri question- ret Ee investiga oat Amend. building. Pos a
ee o—-~~*~ ling by Assistant District Attorda news reporter, = *"..-. af Life Magazine claims that !
ot David ae at ea ny REFUSAL ALieaey |The third motion said Chand- there may have been up to 60;
Gazing writer. Lefore the Or. ler was informed: that .the’ dis:

{0 arrest Charidler and prosecute
: i5(Gr22d jury appearance, <siying: mr Prosegate
19 minutes befare his|that'in effect Chandler “haste. #4 criminally,

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‘| fied that only 'two such calls
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» McKelthen has reclaimed at -
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and gave Chandler five man gis joe reelly rasp spite Supreme Court, aftersseph Marcello, Carlos’ brother!

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} “We (Chandler and his at. Was tranpsorted to Baton Rouge

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where fiteats ee yen0 Seed - was “under $5,000 bond in“Par-
made," . said | Chandler, ‘He lish Prison on charges of im.
| claimed that threats. “ware rand & state police troop.
" ma © against him by Garrison (T- if recently ‘an- in.({%
as a result of references. to meng wil rece 5 ante
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ans made‘in the Life arti. ; ned state's evidence in: the Men

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Novel, “former
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M. D. Stevens CIA HISTORICAL REVIEV PROGRAM
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OSWALD Case |
MAY, Hoke Smith, # 167314

1. Note in the attached New Orleans States-Item articles that if
‘reportedly was to Hoke MAY, a reporter of that newspaper, that 22 in-
criminating letter which Gordon NOVEL allegedly wrote to a Mr. WEESS,
who was "presumably connected with CIA," was delivered.

2. According to the States-Item articles of 26 May. 1967, the seen, fla
which appeared to be a draft, -had been found under a rug in an
occupied by NOVEL prior to his departure from New Orleans in abest
‘ mid-March 1957, and had been turned over to the boyfriend of one of tevo

_ girls who found it while cleaning the apartment. The boyfriend had turned
it over to his professor at a New Orleans university who is a friend of
Reporter Hoke MAY, and he delivered if te MAY. (NOVEL 's attorney kas
stated that NOVEL worked for CIA in New Orleans in 1961}. . —_.

$.. Hoke MAY, without question, is Subject who in April 1958 was ee

. granted a a Covert Security Approval for unwitting use by Project EJRIBULGE:-——— >

MAY was not to be directly employed. by. FJINDULGE bet was to be esedin |
- connection with his position with a private firm which handled work for the
Project. ;

4. Investigation of Subject by this Agency ‘a February/ March 1958

reflected nothing of a derogatory nature. It Hid indicate, however, tint he

has in the past had an interest in politics and in 1952 was empicyedas
political campaign manager in the unsuccessful race of a candidate fer Congress
from Georgia. Subject's grandfather was a Governor of Georgia and later a
Senator from that State. Subject has been employed by various newspapers,
including the New York Times (October 1948-March 1949). There is no in-
formation in Subjects Tile subsequent to his Covert Security Approval dated
‘April 1958.

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' Aor and Gordon| | . ae
-Nowd, controversies
scamdng leath of Presi-
deat Joba /F. Kennedy, had
Ja0Ei words for each other after
- Lame stalked out of a meeting he
"hat sought to discuss the New
Ggleans essassination probe. | :
} Lame, ‘ author of “Rush to eI
Jay ” iirst book challeng-} © - : eo.
limg the validity of the Warren] .: et
‘Qucnnission report, yesterday!
tmet privately with Novel,! -
. ‘wasted in “New: Orleans as a! “oN
Po material witness in Dist. Atty; . —
*: Ju: Garrison’s Investigation. 4S
- Navel’s Columbus attorney,”
- deoxy pa aa said the mecting,: .
dat ~Lane's request,,
“oo. Sova mostly ‘questioning of'
a ~ kis cent by the “author. When:
re , Started to question Lane,
‘oy | Weimer’ said, the author refused.
= to aaswer. 7
: Bath men talked freely with _
yeowters afterward. :
_ i Nok a former New Orleans!. ~
_ music chab Gperator, branded
7 Lanz a “publicity man for Jim} |

-- “anzal “Czy ‘serum) test given!
ae Nevdi"in Columbus a few weoks’
age was: “rigged.” “Lane said:
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The ‘encounter in Weiner's,ing interest in it, But he said]

law offices. this morning!he was leaving with reason tor

‘COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 14|started when Lare asked to
—Clearly, the spirit was notltalk with Novel before driv-
in keeping with that warm,ling on to Denison University

deep-cowns side feeling offat’ Granville,

that he had been libeled, and},
left in a huff.

‘Gordon Novel, whom New
Orleans District Attorney Jim
Garrison has described as a
key witness in the Kennedy

assassination: ‘probe, fumed
that Lane was nothing more
than a “pro pagandist” for Gar-

ovel's Co-

p ney, glumly al-
lowed as how he might have
spent the morning on the golf

Okio,.
afteracon lecture.
Lane r ez ily

for an}

ves “gator,

He charged that an earlier

; Ported to clear Novel of in-

“volvement in the assassination !
thet Weine: Slconspiracy was “rigged 2y|

segments of the media.” This; ;

distributed tote] he said, plainly meant the Na-
newsmen while|tional Broadcasting Co. and

ibelieve that Novel is not “atl ;
“lan being-frank.” .

jlie detector test which pur-|

Weiner, Larne end -Novell Hearst Headline Service, who|
talked. things over behindipaid for the test.

closed. doors.

Novel wanted Lane to

“If NoveL.has.. nothing.to:

swer while strapped to a lie{ Orleans,” “Lane contended.

detector, was a masterpiece
of Red-haiting. °. :

His loyalty cnatlenged,
Lane put newsmen or. notice

. that the statement was lidel-|on charges that he burglarized |"
course if Lane hadn't insistedlous. ive 200 ‘ised Weiner ofja.munitions. dump in iZouma,|:

on the rendezvous with his cli- “unethical” conduct.

ent. But then he went into
detail about Novel’s pending
libel suit against Garrison and
‘his circle of financial backers
in New Orleans, | .

The only show of cordiality
came when an office secre-
tary asked for Lane's auto:
graph, He responded ‘graci-
ously,

. Weiner, who revealed equalj Garrison's whole case has]!
assauit,! been a fraud. Lane has deen}.

surprise at Novel's
apologized. But Lane essuredi
everyone that he would never
come back. By this timae,

-Weiner was saying ke wouldn't

invite Lene back anyway.
Lane said he came w dis-

“If I went there.”
responded indignantly, “I'd
be incarcerated for life.”

Novel is facing extradition

La. He nas maintained that

isaying that Garrison hes the
case wrapped up.

And Greenbaum. plaintively
remarked to everyone this
morning that
know we're on the right side.j.

euss the case with Novel be] We're the ones who .are..de-

cause of the authar's continu. fending our Government.”.

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